SEA Lab on Road to Recovery

After more than 7,000 fish perished at in Redondo Beach due to a bleach leak at the beginning of the month, the aquarium is back in business, according to the Daily Breeze.

The newspaper reported that SEA Lab just received three leopard sharks from the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San Pedro to replace the sharks that died Feb. 9 after bleach used to keep organisms from growing in the pipe couplings of the West Basin Municipal Water District's test desalination plant next door leaked into the intake water for the aquarium's tanks.

The contaminated water killed about 240 creatures—the majority of them schooling fish—in the SEA Lab's collection, and about 6,900 white sea bass in the King Harbor "grow-out" facility for the White Sea Bass Restoration Project. The white sea bass were set to be released into the wild at the beginning of March.

The project, which is part of a partnership with Hubbs Sea World Research Institute and the Ocean Resource Enhancement and Hatchery Program, is set to receive another shipment of baby white sea bass in April.

In the meantime, West Basin has built a new intake system to fill the aquarium's tanks—the interim system did not provide enough water—and will investigate the cause of the leak.

• Full story: Redondo Beach SEA Lab Aquarium on Course for Recovery After Bleach Leak [Daily Breeze]

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