So What Else Can An Aquarium Do?

Sure, an aquarium is a great attraction but being the kind of guy who won't plant a flower I can't eat I tend to look at things from a practical point of view. Seriously, I have Rosemary bushes in my front yard and I'm slowly eliminating the grass so I can replace it with Chives, Parsley and other perennial edible plants.

At the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland they're doing research in the Gulf of Mexico on the effects of the BP oil spill. Millions, perhaps Billions of Federal Dollars will be spent on that project alone and Greensboro missed the boat. The National Aquarium also works to protect harbors, bays and waterways, wild dolphins, and spotted eagles. Perhaps our aquarium could help protect the Bald Eagles nesting above Greensboro's city lakes. The Bald Eagle is our National bird you know.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is studying the greenhouse gas, Methane, that is rising up from the ocean floor. In case you didn't know, Greensboro has it's own unresolved Methane issues at the old White Street Landfill location.

The Georgia Aquarium seems to concentrate its research efforts on animal conservation. Is there anyone in this day and age who isn't behind animal conservation?

The Vancouver Aquarium has concentrated on marine mammal research since its founding 56 years ago. It also works on killer whales, fisheries, rockfish and lingcod, sea lions and more.

At the New England Aquarium located in Boston-- not our fair city-- they are working on Endangered Species and Habitats, Climate Change and the Oceans, Sustainable Fisheries, Bycatch and Aquaculture, Conservation Medicine and Ocean Health, Marine Animal Rescue and more. These are some of the most important fields of research in the world and there's no reason why some of this research and the economic development it brings shouldn't be done right here in Greensboro, North Carolina.

That is, unless you believe a performing arts center is somehow going to save the world.

And did I mention the City of Greensboro is loosing money because they can't sell enough water from the Randalman Dam? Come on Greensboro City Council, we're trying to bail you out here!

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