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The Aquarium of the University of Murcia (UMU), located in the pavilion that this educational institution has in the former artillery barracks, has registered more than 300,000 visits in its ten year history, celebrating these days and during which he has worked in different research projects, such as the conservation of seahorses (Hippocampus guttulatus).
The main objective of the team that shaped the project to create the aquarium was to get a center that would serve as a link between society and the UMU and at the same time, participate in scientific activities.
Visitors to these facilities can immerse themselves in a world unknown to most, close to sharks in the Indian Ocean coral reefs in the Pacific or the Mediterranean coast.
Also, you can see from baby clownfish and sharks to seahorses of different species, jellyfish through the Mar Menor.
Throughout this decade, its activities have been directed at four main lines of action: education and training, research, conservation and advice.
In his laboratory Aquariology different lines of research, as already mentioned conservation of seahorses, the breeding of white-tipped sharks or development of coral reefs develop.
Since the Aquarium has been made advisory activities to different agencies and entities such as the Spanish Institute of Oceanography in San Pedro del Pinatar, the Marine Research Centre of the University of Alicante, the Oceanografic Valencia or IMIB.
http://www.aquarium.um.es
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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