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When most people imagine the future Kyle’s Kids Adventure Area at the Fresno Aquarium, they picture children reaching into touch tanks, discovering fascinating aquatic animals, and exploring interactive exhibits designed to spark curiosity.
Photo: Summer Burdick, USGS
Recent reports from the Klamath River reveal a troubling challenge facing juvenile salmon. Scientists have found that many young Chinook salmon are becoming infected with a microscopic parasite called Ceratonova shasta, a disease that attacks the digestive tract and can be fatal to young fish before they ever reach the ocean.
Rendering © https://OceanWellWater.com/pilot-test
For decades, California’s water debates have often been framed as a competition.
North versus South.
Cities versus farms.
People versus fish.
The Fresno Aquarium believes there is a better way.
Ten years ago today, supporters of the nonprofit Aquarius Aquarium Institute gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking for what would become the Fresno Aquarium’s very first physical construction on our donated property along Highway 99 overlooking the San Joaquin River.
Bill Thornbury, the multi-talented musician and actor who wrote Livin’ It Up In The Inland Sea as the Fresno Aquarium’s theme song and Tom Lang, executive director, talked with Ray Appleton on April 28, 2026…
California officials are raising concerns about elevated wildfire risk across the San Joaquin River watershed this year, as warm temperatures, dry fuels, and reduced snowpack set the stage for another challenging fire season.
Generous Donations from People Like You to our From the Ground Up capital campaign are building the nonprofit Fresno Aquarium along the San Joaquin River DEBT-FREE to provide a place where children and adults in the San Joaquin Valley can learn, explore, and discover. We’re building as donations come in.
We’d love for you to join us!!
Every gift, no matter the size, brings us that much closer to being able to expand our current popular educational outreach programs to all the kids who will come through the doors of our very first building.
Building DEBT-FREE takes longer, but protects the project and the land that was donated to us. This is why the nonprofit 501(c)(3) Aquarius Aquarium Institute urgently needs your tax-deductible support right away to continue the progress donors just like you have already made toward building this exciting project.
Every so often someone asks a fair question: Why does a project like the Fresno Aquarium take so long?
The short answer is that we’re building it the same way many of the great…
Starting March 1st, the San Joaquin River, including the area along the Fresno Aquarium property, will begin running higher as part of the 2026 San Joaquin River Restoration Program (SJRRP) flow schedule. This annual process, now updated with the latest run-off forecasts and water allocations, reflects a Normal–Wet water year…
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s and CA Department of Water Resource’s $58 million Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage (“Big Notch”) Project came online last December. It shows that riparian habitat restoration doesn’t have to mean disruption…
