Notojima Aquarium
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Date opened | 1 July 1982 |
Location | Notojima, Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan |
No. of animals | 40,000[1] |
No. of species | 500[1] |
Memberships | JAZA |
Major exhibits | Blue World Dolphins' Paradise Noto Sea Galleria[1] |
Website | www |
Notojima Aquarium (のとじま臨海公園水族館, Notojima Rinkaikouen Suizokukan) is an public aquarium located on the north coast of Notojima in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture. It is a member of the Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA),[2] and the aquarium is accredited as a Registered Museum by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.[3]
Exhibits
Notojima Aquarium is the only public aquarium in Ishikawa Prefecture that opened in 1982, and is the largest public aquarium facility on the Sea of Japan side.
The large tank of the "Natural Ecological Museum of the Sea" is one of the largest tanks in Japan for captivity giant kelps (height 7 m (23 ft), width 12 m (39 ft)), and more than 10,000 sardines are captivity. Spotted seals and river otters are also captivity at this facility.[4]
Also aquarium have The 22m tunnel fish tank, dubbed "Dolphins' Paradise" for Pacific white-sided dolphins, Humboldt penguins and fish.[1] In 2010, a project to attach an artificial tail fin to a Pacific white-sided dolphin with a missing caudal fin named Lanan is started. following Fuji at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, succeeded in installing the second artificial tail fin of a dolphin in the world with the cooperation of Bridgestone.[5]
In 2010, captivity whale sharks in the panoramic fish tank of the new facility "Blue World" is started and aquariums have captivity to this day.[1][6] also captivity large pelagic fish such as bluefin tuna. In the winter season after 2013, aquariums installed multiple kotatsu in front of the fish tank of "Blue World" and adopted a system to observe fish while warming the body.[7] Nine days after the 2024 Noto earthquake, a male whale shark at the attraction died which officials attributed to equipment damage leading to poor living conditions in the tank.[8] The next day, a female individual is also found to be dead.[9]
Gallery
Exterior
Fish tank
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e "NOTOJIMA AQUARIUM Official site Englishversion".
- ^ JAZA. "正会員名簿【水族館】" (in Japanese). Retrieved 2024-02-27.
- ^ "法律上の位置付けがある登録博物館・指定施設". 文化庁. 2024-02-27.
- ^ "のとじま水族館 パンフレット" (PDF). June 18, 2020.
- ^ "イルカの人工尾びれを当社ゴム技術により製作".
- ^ "ジンベイザメが来た 石川・のとじま水族館に新館".
- ^ "こたつに入ってジンベイ観賞 七尾市ののとじま水族館、3台設置".
- ^ "Notohantō jishin de hisai shita suizokukan no jinbēzame shinu kankyō akka gen'in ka" 能登半島地震で被災した水族館のジンベエザメ死ぬ 環境悪化原因か [Whale shark dies at aquarium affected by Noto Peninsula earthquake; environmental deterioration may be the cause]. The Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese). 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ "ジンベエザメ「ハク」も死ぬ のとじま水族館|社会|富山のニュース|富山新聞". 富山新聞 (in Japanese). 2024-01-10. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
External links
- Official Site (in Japanese)
- Official Site (in English)
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