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The “Tunabago” bringing a load of tuna to the Monterey Bay
Aquarium. (Photo courtesy John O'Sullivan)
the theoretical ninety fish, we ended up with seventy tuna, including
the ones from previous trips, that were ready to move over to the new
tank.
By now, some of the tuna from the Moss Landing tank had been
with us for two years and were a lot larger that anything we'd ever at-
tempted to move. We were a bit nervous about just how we would move
all those large fish one at a time out of their holding tank, into the Tu-
nabago, and then up to the top of the open ocean tank. The first part
was straightforward; it was getting the fish from the truck three floors
up to the exhibit that had us analyzing various possible scenarios—
some of which were considerably more reasonable than others. Any
method we used, we knew, would require that a fish be confined in a
stretcher with a limited amount of oxygenated water for a least several
minutes. Speed was of the essence.
First we considered the Japanese method of two people running each
fish in its stretcher up the three flights to the tank. The second method
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