The Love Maine Lobsters’ Mobile Lobster Sales Business is an environmentally responsible way to provide a nice living for your family and your efforts help support a national marine aquarium grant program. Everyone Wins: the Independent Dealers who make nice profits, students since lobster sales support marine science education and the environment because the Maine lobster Industry is recognized as a model for sustainable fishing.
The American lobster fishery is Maine’s signature fishery. In 2009, the dockside value of Maine lobster was $185 million, with an estimated economic impact on the state economy of $500 million, supporting 5930 commercial lobster/crab licenses. 
The role of lobstering dominates Maine’s fishing economy. A combination of lobster abundance and various changes in technology resulted in a shift from various inshore fisheries to a virtually single species fishery and a dependence on lobster that is unprecedented in Maine’s fishing history, so important to Maine’s way of life that lobster sustainability and management occurs at many levels.
Maine regulates the fishery through legislative action and Department of Marine Resources. The state participates in interstate management through the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service. Maine has delegated some authority directly to the lobster industry, which is one of the most significant examples of co-management in the country.
The state is divided into seven management zones each of which is divided into voting districts. Lobstermen elect representatives to a council that helps 
enact legislation designed to ensure the sustainability of Maine lobster, have the power to limit entry in the zone through an entry/exit ratio, and one member from each zone sits on the statewide Lobster Advisory Council.
Maine lobster regulations protect both juveniles and large lobsters through a dual gauge system that includes a minimum and maximum length and limit each boat to 800 traps. Lobstermen voluntarily notch the tails of egged-out female protecting them from harvest for several years ensuring an abundant female lobster population prime for reproduction. Furthermore, Lobster fishing is restricted to traps, and Maine regulates lobster traps dimensions so that vents release undersized lobsters.
The Maine Lobster Industry thrives because of an historical co-management effort that protects people, lobster and the environment. The Love Maine Lobsters’ Mobile Lobster Sales Business provides an unique opportunity to support marine aquarium education, while establishing a business in a proven industry that will last generation after generation after generation. Contact Love Maine Lobsters to learn more about this profitable opportunity, tell them that Touch-Tank sent you.
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Teaching aquarium innovator and 5th grade teacher at West Harpswell Elementary School located in Maine, Mrs. Giberson and some her students share their science classroom tank experience through a interesting video. Topics include: maintenance, feeding, and handling the creatures of the cold-water touch tank. Enjoy! Grants Available
This video of a science classroom tank is one of the best that Touch-Tank as ever seen. Many schools, museums, educational centers and even businesses make the decision to install a science classroom tank aquarium as a means to reach students and educate customers.
They reduce stress allowing for superior learning, minimize nervousness relaxing students helping them learn and lessens anxiety assisting small children who aren’t used to being away their parents adjust to the new environment.
They show students how fish live, demonstrate the value of natural aquatic habitats, teach children responsibilities as they care for the live inhabitants, and encourage respect as caretakers learn to nurture and care for those more vulnerable than themselves.
Aquariums teach people about the importance of marine and aquatic resources and they are great fun! If you want to explore the possibilities of supplying a superior teaching experience to your students, apply for a Touch Tanks for Kids Grant and discover how to bring a science classroom tank to a location near you.
Having an educational aquarium in the classroom has a number of benefits, 
including learning, health and environmental benefits. This is why so many educators use touch tanks to reach students, parents and yes, even administrators. Touch-Tank hopes that you enjoyed this video of a science classroom tank has much as we did!
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The Bell House
Incorporated on February 25, 1892, Colonial Beach, Virginia is the “Playground on the Potomac.” Its beautiful beaches and lavish waterfront property including its most famous structure The Alexander Graham Bell house, presently the Bell House Bed and Breakfast located on Irving Street, is a must see family destination.
Only a short drive from the well traveled Route 3 “Historic Corridor” that hosts attractions including Stratford Hall, George Washington’s Birthplace, Westmoreland State Park, Historic Downtown Fredericksburg, and The Museum at Colonial Beach.
Museum at Colonial Beach
The Colonial Beach Historical Society rescued an historical house from destruction and created the Museum at Colonial Beach to tell the town rich history through artifacts, photos and other exhibits. The Museum is open to visitors from early April until the middle of December. The regular hours of operation are Saturdays and Sundays 1-4 pm and the second Friday of the month from 6-8 pm though private tours are available through appointment. Admission is free, but your generous donations help keep the doors open.
The Watermen's Room
The museum has much to offer including the Watermen’s Room, a permanent exhibit, dedicated by the founding members of the Historical Society to honor the generations of fishermen and oysterman who made their living on the waters around Colonial Beach. The surrounding waters are important to the area, so important in fact that the museums supporters reached out to Touch Tanks for Kids for help in purchasing a touch tank to demonstrate to local children and visitors alike how important the Chesapeake Bay Watershed and its sea creatures are to the continued prosperity of the “Playground on the Potomac”
Here is the email from The Museum at Colonial Beach curator, Shane Buzby, to Touch Tanks for Kids executive director, Mike Martin, explaining how the museum will secure the additional funding for their touch tank project and his subsequent post on the Touch Tanks for Kids Discussion Forum explaining how the touch tank will benefit the museum’s community.
SHANE M. BUZBY
Hello, my name is Shane Buzby. I am writing on behalf of The Museum at Colonial Beach Va. We are a small Beach town, located on the Potomac River in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Museum is devoted to the education of all people from children to adults. We firmly believe that a touch tank would be instrumental in the education and learning for our children especially. It would give the schoolchildren a chance to learn about nature and how to conserve our resources. We see this as a valuable asset to the Museum, which would provide field trips and special events around the touch tank. Being a small non-profit organization, we would rely on our memberships and donations to secure extra funding for any added costs. Thank you for your time. -Shane Buzby (curator)
Shane Buzby’s wonderful explanation of how a touch tank will enhance the Museum at Colonial Beach:
100 Years of the Colonial Beach School System
In today’s world, where children are more involved with television and video games, The Museum at Colonial Beach wants to reach out to the children and educate them with the utilization of a touch tank. The Museum at Colonial Beach Va, is dedicated to the education of our children, and what better way to promote education, but through a touch tank. Imagine the look in a child’s eyes as he/she touches a specimen form the touch tank, that they have only seen in a book or magazine. Being a small community, the museum is located within walking distance from the elementary school. This will enable the children to take multiple field trips to learn about our environment, the species that live in our waters, and to promote the conservation of the earth. I see a touch tank as the biggest educational tool available. Our Town is located on the Potomac River and thrives with numerous species of shellfish, crustaceans, and wildlife. The Museum wants to promote the preservation of these and the education of what these species are and how they feel and live. As our children seem less involved with nature, the museum wants to let them know what our world has to offer and through a touch tank, I feel that we can communicate with our children. After all, the children of today are the future of tomorrow. Thank You – Shane Buzby (curator)
The Museum at Colonial Beach is doing a membership drive!!! Please go to their website http://www.museumatcolonialbeach.com , and become a member of the Museum Today. Your membership is what keeps the museum doors open and will help improve the decorum with an educational touch tank!
Join the discussion at the Touch Tanks for Kids Discussion Forum and let them know how they can improve the Touch Tanks for Kids Program.
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Marine Ecological Habitats designs and builds the best self-contained marine
Inspires Excellence
aquariums available. They use the highest-quality American-made cast acrylic and the quality is unmatched. All their systems include superior parts that will not rust, corrode or delaminate, and filtration systems use the finest biological, chemical and particle removal process that provides a healthier environment for both marine life and people who use Marine Eco’s equipment.
Touch Tanks are long-term scientific research/teaching tools. Like all of Marine Eco’s marine habitats’ products, Touch Tanks feature the finest quality components, including three quarter inch American Acrylic and are designed to last many years.Their marine aquariums are child-friendly, easy to maintain and mobile. The tank’s design allows educators to recreate life in the sea to a remarkable degree of accuracy.
Touch-Tank highly recommends Marine Ecological Habitats products because 
of their superior quality that prevents environmental issues. The Biddeford, Maine Company offers several touch tank designs and Touch-Tank would like to introduce our readers to three unique Marine Eco’s touch tanks that provide a greater learning experience: the original touch tank, the Sea Bus and the L-shaped touch tank.
The original touch tank retails for $7000. The 110-gallon self-contained unit overall size is 60” long, 32” Wide, and 36” high. It is prefect for classroom instruction!
The Sea Bus retails for $4000. The 25-gallon self-contained unit is a completely mobile classroom, prefect for short-term educational presentation.
The L Shaped touch tank retails for $13,500. The self-contained touch tank, presently in construction will soon be on display at the Environmental Learning Center (ELC): 255 Live Oak Drive, Vero Beach, FL 32963; Phone: 772-589-5050; Email: Info@DiscoverELC.org
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday – Friday 10am-4pm
Saturday 9am-12pm (extended to 4pm during winter season),
Sunday 1pm – 4pm
Contact Marine Ecological Habitats to learn more about their marien aquariums and other products.
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