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Public aquarium

A large aquarium open to visitors, often also a research and conservation centre.

Also: oceanarium

The first public aquarium opened at London Zoo in 1853. Today large public aquariums such as Monterey Bay, Georgia, Osaka Kaiyukan and Okinawa Churaumi hold huge tanks with sharks, rays and schools of fish, and some keep whale sharks. Many breed threatened species, rescue and rehabilitate animals, and fund field research. Debate continues over keeping very large or wide-ranging animals in tanks and over taking wild fish for display. India's oldest public aquarium, the Taraporewala Aquarium on Mumbai's Marine Drive, opened in 1951.

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Aquarium Selective breeding Marine protected area

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