This complex and fascinating exhibit dominates the Harvesting the Sea Gallery. Twenty-nine models of commercially caught fish move through the gallery on an overhead track. At the Fish Tales exhibit, they drop down and interact with computer stations.
Visitors can select their favorite fish as it goes by, or choose from a graphic menu of species.
Successive screens teach about the habitat, range, catch statistics, management schemes, and other pertinent information of the selected fish. Quicktime video of the fish in its habitat is also available. A wide diversity of fish and shellfish live in the North Pacific Puget Sound fishermen commercially harvest a variety of fish and shellfish off the Pacific coast, the Gulf of Alaska, and the Bering Sea. Each commercially harvested species is adapted to a particular geographic range and habitat within the ocean. Theater A net full of fish .