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This summer, the Oregon Coast Aquarium celebrates its silver anniversary. Twenty-five years of puffins, sea lions, and octopuses. Twenty-five years of education programs, family vacations, and conservation programs. The Oregon Coast Aquarium has become one of the state’s premier attractions, drawing some 400,000 visitors to Newport, Oregon, each year. In hindsight, building an aquarium on the central Oregon coast seems like a no-brainer. Newport, wrapping around beautiful, bountiful Yaquina Bay and abutting the Pacific Ocean, is an ideal setting for a facility that cultivates public interest in marine environments. But Newport was founded on the booming promise of seafood fisheries, shipping commerce and timber harvest, with little consideration for how to sustain a city if those resources should dwindle. The Oregon Coast Aquarium sprang from a grassroots effort to make the Yaquina Bay community resilient to the swaying economics of single industries. Historically, Newport’s economy was largely supported by the timber and commercial fishing industries. The 1980s were marked by dramatic declines in both industries, inspiring the community to form the Yaquina Bay Economic Foundation to foster and encourage economic diversification in Lincoln County. The Aquarium became the legacy project for the Foundation. The Oregon Coast Aquarium was separately incorporated as a nonprofit in 1984. Support from public and private agencies, corporations, foundations and individuals garnered over $11.5 million for the Aquarium’s construction. An additional $14 million was financed through tax-free bond anticipation notes issued by the state and underwritten by the United States National Bank of Oregon. With all the native greenery lining its outdoor walkways, springtime visitors to the Oregon Coast Aquarium may not realize they’re walking on the re-imagined site of a former lumber mill (leased to the aquarium for $1 a year by the Port of Newport). But it’s true—archival images of the property show all the trappings of a thriving logging industry, but scant few living trees. The north end of the property is now dedicated to a nature trail that skirts the Yaquina Bay estuary—a unique feature for Big Bites 3
an aquarium. This wild exhibit features over one hundred native plant species, many of them labeled to provide an interpretive experience for guests. This transformation owes itself to two major factors: coastal Oregon’s ample rainfall, which encourages prodigious regrowth; and the Aquarium’s architects and groundskeeping staff, who from the Aquarium’s very beginning imagined a naturescape lush with native species. The concept for this transformation was developed by Walker Macy, a landscape architecture firm based in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. Trees, shrubs and other natural features were chosen and placed with unhurried growth in mind; the Aquarium’s foundations were laid less on a blueprint than on a green-print. Crucial to the execution of this concept was Bob Llewellyn, the Aquarium’s first head groundskeeper. He envisioned the grounds as being an interpretive journey of sorts: Upon arrival, visitors would follow the figurative path of rainwater as it made its way from the Coast Range down to the Pacific Ocean. “The idea behind the concept was basically this: Visitors would get out of their cars and leave the stress of their daily lives behind as they entered the Aquarium,” said Anita Albrecht, the current Head Groundskeeper. The overall effect of exploring the Aquarium grounds would be akin to walking a labyrinth, calming and transportive. The Aquarium opened on May 23, 1992. Nine months later, one million visitors had walked through its doors, beating attendance projections by eight months. The Aquarium’s open-air aviary—among the largest of its kind in the world—allows its resident seabirds and shorebirds to live their lives much as they would in the wild. Thanks to this—and to innovative husbandry techniques employed by staff—the world’s first captive Tufted Puffin, Pigeon Guillemot, Rhinoceros Auklet, and Black Oystercatcher chicks were hatched in the Aviary during the Aquarium’s first four years. The Aquarium’s stellar reputation spread in the following years. It was the second most popular attraction in Oregon, and rated among the nation’s ten best by Parade Magazine. This exemplary standing led the McCaw Foundation to contact the Aquarium about providing a site to build an orca rehabilitation center for Keiko, arguably the world’s most famous whale, the star of the movie Free Willy. 4 Big Bites
Keiko’s arrival in January 1996 attracted international press coverage and launched the Aquarium into a spotlight on the world stage. During Keiko’s tenure, the Aquarium welcomed millions of visitors. When Keiko departed for Iceland in 1998, the Aquarium purchased Keiko’s pool from the McCaw Foundation and transformed it into a new exhibit, opening Passages of the Deep in 2000. The threechambered exhibit featuring a clear walk-through tunnel was a hit with visitors, but did not attract the crowds that Keiko had. By 2002, waning attendance and fiscal mismanagement led to financial woes. The Aquarium was past due on payroll taxes, vendor accounts and other liabilities that exceeded $2.5 million. Unable to fulfill its bond obligations, the Aquarium was on the brink of bankruptcy. Aquarium senior staff and board members managed to raise in excess of $5 million over the next few years, renegotiate the terms of the bonds, pay off past due taxes and payables and obtain a line of credit. Since 2002, the Aquarium has reduced total indebtedness by just over $10 million. The Aquarium’s marked progress on these debts and consistently positive cash flow spell a bright fiscal future for the years to come. With the unrelenting support of its members, the Aquarium has been able to provide a variety of programs and unique experiences that fulfill its mission: connecting visitors to the Oregon coast and inspiring a love and respect for the ocean. For the past 17 years, the Aquarium has been accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), an independent organization that is dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education and science. The Aquarium underwent a rigorous evaluation in 2000 to ensure it met ever-rising standards in animal and veterinary care, conservation, education, and safety required of AZA facilities. In order to maintain accreditation by AZA, re-evaluation takes place every five years. The Oregon Coast Aquarium remains the only AZA-accredited aquarium in the state of Oregon. Annually, the Aquarium’s outreach programs visit over 120 schools across the Northwest, reaching more than 35,000 students. Over 9,000 students visit the Aquarium with their school class annually. More than 2,000 guests have Big Bites 5
participated in Sleep with the Sharks sleepover programs, which are designed for school groups, scouts, families and other outings. In addition to the dedicated staff, over 400 volunteers devote their time to work in exhibit interpretation, animal husbandry and facility maintenance. A year-round youth volunteer program allows young folks to work with the staff to learn about marine animals and how they are cared for. They have the opportunity to become interpreters or tour guides and share their knowledge with visitors. “In just a few short months we will celebrate twenty-five years as an organization—twenty-five years as a premier destination in Oregon; as a leader in animal rehabilitation, scientific diving and marine science education,” said Aquarium President Carrie Lewis. “We’ve accomplished a great deal in that period, but we’re not content to rest on our laurels—the future is rife with potential.” The Aquarium’s Board of Directors has recently completed a new strategic plan for the years ahead. With a renewed focus on philanthropy and commitment to leadership, the Aquarium is planning its next bold steps forward. New projects, programs, exhibits and behind-thescenes encounters will reinforce the mission and expand the Aquarium’s role as a leader in marine science education and quality family fun. The Aquarium will begin its 25th year with the debut of its new exhibit, “Big Bites,” which showcases creatures with incredible feeding adaptions. Visitors will be introduced to the dazzling variety of fishes’ jaws and teeth, featuring piranha, barracuda, parrotfish, sheepshead and other toothsome species. It’s one of the many exciting new projects in store at the Aquarium—ones that promise to enhance visitors’ experience and appreciation of the oceans for years to come.
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The toothsome fishes of Big Bites will give visitors plenty of fascinating natural history to chew over, said Jim Burke, Director of Animal Husbandry at the Aquarium. Some secure their prey in the blink of an eye, with dagger-like teeth, while others take the concept of ‘roughage’ to a new level and make meals out of hard coral. There are species that shear flesh with sharp, serrated teeth, and others that use flat, broad teeth to crush the shells of mollusks and crustaceans. The uniquely arranged jaws and teeth of fishes featured in Big Bites allow them to carve niches for themselves in their respective environments. For many of these species, form follows function—what (and how) these creatures eat has shaped their appearance, sometimes drastically. Aquarium enthusiasts will likely recognize some of these renowned “big biters”.
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Continued from page 9 As visitors travel beyond our Secrets of Shipwrecks gallery, they will come face to face with captivating animals such as porcupinefish, parrotfish and piranhas. The new gallery transports guests into tropical saltwater environments such as Australian coral reefs and warm pockets of the Amazon Basin, where the waters are calm but mealtime is anything but! In addition to the infamously voracious piranha, guests will meet the Goliath Tigerfish, a denizen of the Congo River Basin in Africa. Goliath Tigerfish are lightning-fast hunters that lie in wait for prey to swim past, subduing them with huge, dagger-like teeth. Porcupinefish take a different approach, essentially swapping the steak knife for a crab mallet. Inside their beak-like mouth, the teeth of porcupinefish are fused into a “dental plate” that allows these googly-eyed fishes to crush shelled prey such as snails, urchins and hermit crabs. The Aquarium is incorporate two new tank shapes into the exhibit so visitors can view fish from a novel perspective. An all-time favorite design allows guests to crawl inside not one but two tanks and “pop up” into the exhibits. In these new tanks, our aquarists have created habitats that not only support the biological needs of the new animals but are visually attractive, and their attention to detail yields beautiful results. Visitors will notice the teal-colored mouth of a parrotfish as it grazes through the architecture of a simulated coral reef. They can peer among the branches of Malaysian bogwood, their stares reciprocated by fish equipped with menacing teeth and a crocodile’s smile.
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