Aquarium of the Pacific

Aquarium Fun Facts

Many of the fishes in Blue Cavern and Amber Forest were obtained during a series of collection trips conducted with the help of Long Beach Sportfishing in Rainbow Harbor. We asked them to invite some of their best regular customers to help us. They did what they enjoyed most—catching lots of fish. Some of the fish from those trips that you see in the exhibits today are California halibut, ocean whitefish, kelp bass, and sand bass, and various rockfishes and surfperch.