Marissa Torres

I will say, we discontinued the seafood watch app because there wasn't enough traffic and there were too many updates to keep track of to justify keeping the app. However, we still offer the program on the website. One of the biggest "avoids" was california yellowtail which I dont eat. It also says to avoid giant sea bass, white sea bass, shortfin mako shark, surf smelt and Pacific bluefin tuna. None of these are in my diet. I would say that tuna is slightly concerning but I know all about bluefins as I did a project on them. Not only would I just choose not to eat them due to overfishing purposes but I most likely wouldn't be able to afford it in the first place.

I visited the beach next to the aquarium since that is where I work. I learned about the importance of kelp and how different animals play different roles in the kelp forest ecosystem. I didnt have much opportunity to take a picture over these last two days but I did manage to get one overlooking our great tide pool on saturday.

The main thing I notice is how hot it is. And then I notice how far apart everything is. I think back to when I used to time my walks to class and some were 20 minutes.

I havent learned those yet. Since its my first time reading about it, I wanted to learn what it was in the first place as I am not very familiar with this topic.