Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Maritime Gloucester's aquarium is home to a variety of local sea dwellers, including crabs of various sizes and types.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Maritime Gloucester's aquarium is home to a variety of local sea dwellers and often has a rotating array of creatures that they display and then release back to the ocean. This past summer and fall there were squid on display, including this baby squid.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. There's usually a little drama happening in some of the tanks at Maritime Gloucester.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Gloucester Daily Times Tom Balf, the executive director of Maritime Gloucester.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Maritime Gloucester's aquarium is home to a variety of local sea dwellers and often has a rotating array of creatures that they display and then release back to the ocean. This past summer and fall there were squid on display, including this baby squid. The squid can change color and blend in with its surroundings, even when it's on a net.
ALLEGRA BOVERMAN/Gloucester Daily Times Tom Balf, the executive director of Maritime Gloucester.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Scott Peters, and his wife Peggy Rogers of Westerly, R.I. were visiting Maritime Gloucester last week while spending time in Cape Ann. Scott was examining the oysters in one of the touch tanks.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Veterans' Memorial Elementary School fourth graders Kaitlyn Chinault, Seth Balestraci and Jholly DeFreitas work together to figure out what kinds of plankton they are looking at during a visit to Maritime Gloucester on Wednesday afternoon.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Maritime Gloucester education director Mary Kay Taylor, far right, talks with fourth graders from Veterans' Memorial Elementary School on Wednesday about Stellwagon Bank, sea life on the ocean floor, whales, mapping and other maritime topics while visiting the center on Wednesday morning. Curtis Sarkin, another educator, is at center back.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Maritime Gloucester's aquarium is home to a variety of local sea dwellers, including crabs of various sizes and types.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Maritime Gloucester's aquarium is home to a variety of local sea dwellers, including crabs of various sizes and types.
Allegra Boverman/Gloucester Daily Times. Maritime Gloucester's aquarium is home to a variety of local sea dwellers, including crabs of various sizes and types.
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