LINCOLN COUNTY NEWS • April 19, 2022
All is quiet in the Maine State Aquarium in West Boothbay Harbor, where tanks usually bubble with oxygen and marine creature’s movements. It is almost ghostly, the still bodies of construction equipment in place of the animals. Tanks have been removed for renovations, and the “critters,” as Education Director Dottie Yunger calls them, have been donated to other educational facilities. To complete these renovations, the Maine State Aquarium will remain closed for the 2022 summer season. “So our plan is to make/create exhibits that reflect the research and the researchers here at the Department of Marine Resources,” Yunger said.