Notojima Aquarium

Notojima Aquarium (のとじま臨海公園水族館, Notojima Rinkaikouen Suizokukan) is an public aquarium located on the north coast of Notojima in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture.

Notojima Aquarium
Notojima Aquarium
Date opened1 July 1982
LocationNotojima, Nanao, Ishikawa, Japan
No. of animals40,000[1]
No. of species500[1]
MembershipsJAZA
Major exhibitsBlue World
Dolphins' Paradise
Noto Sea Galleria[1]
Websitewww.notoaqua.jp

Exhibits
Whale Sharks in the "Blue World" tank

Notojima Aquarium is the only public aquarium in Ishikawa Prefecture that opened in 1982, and is the largest public aquarium facility on the Sea of Japan side.

The large tank of the "Natural Ecological Museum of the Sea" is one of the largest tanks in Japan for captivity giant kelps (height 7 m (23 ft), width 12 m (39 ft)), and more than 10,000 sardines are captivity. Spotted seals and river otters are also captivity at this facility.[2]

Also aquarium have The 22m tunnel fish tank, dubbed "Dolphins' Paradise" for Pacific white-sided dolphins, Humboldt penguins and fish.[1] In 2010, a project to attach an artificial tail fin to a Pacific white-sided dolphin with a missing caudal fin named Lanan is started. following Fuji at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, succeeded in installing the second artificial tail fin of a dolphin in the world with the cooperation of Bridgestone.[3]

In 2010, captivity whale sharks in the panoramic fish tank of the new facility "Blue World" is started and aquariums have captivity to this day.[1][4] also captivity large pelagic fish such as bluefin tuna. In the winter season after 2013, aquariums installed multiple kotatsu in front of the fish tank of "Blue World" and adopted a system to observe fish while warming the body.[5]

Exterior

Fish tank

See also

References
  1. "NOTOJIMA AQUARIUM Official site Englishversion".
  2. "のとじま水族館　パンフレット" (PDF). June 18, 2020.
  3. "イルカの人工尾びれを当社ゴム技術により製作".
  4. "ジンベイザメが来た　石川・のとじま水族館に新館".
  5. "こたつに入ってジンベイ観賞　七尾市ののとじま水族館、３台設置".
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