Appeared in Business in Vancouver – May 6, 2014 Let us get the business out of the way. Last year the Vancouver Aquarium attracted over a million visitors. Its total revenue was $30.6 million, of which $12.9 million was from admissions. Its fame is worldwide. It has thrived under co-founder Murray Newman and, since Newman’s…
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Jellyfish futures ring global ocean industry alarm bells
Appeared in Business in Vancouver – October 22, 2013 Absurd alarmism? Or scarifying prophecy? No, not nuclear Armageddon, overpopulation or even bee extinction. This all-purpose death-dealer is being benignly exhibited (to November 22) to admiring crowds at the Vancouver Aquarium. Jellyfish. Those pretty translucent blobs that the word “jellyfish” conveys? Who’d have thought? Few of…