Visit the First Inland Aquarium in NC
When:
March 1, 2025 @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
2025-03-01T13:00:00-05:00
2025-03-01T16:00:00-05:00
Where:
Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO
511 N Main St
Hendersonville
NC
511 N Main St
Hendersonville
NC
Contact:
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00pm-4:00pm (small shark and ray feeding Thursday & Friday at 1:30pm, and 1:30pm & 3:00pm on Saturdays. Reptile encounter throughout the afternoons)
The Aquarium & Shark Lab by Team ECCO is:
- The first inland aquarium in NC
- Member of: Oceana, American Elasmobranch Society; NC Science Network; National Marine Educators; American Meteorological Society, NMEA, Nature Foundation of St. Maarten, AMS, Reef Check
- Listed in the top 150 aquariums in the USA by Everything Fish Keeping
- Member of the Career & Technical Education Advisory Board HCPS;
- An NC Environmental Education Site; a Fish Education Site for REEF;
- Part of the NC Chapel Hill pilot program for environmental education
- Has established networks with the GA Aquarium, Riverbanks Zoo, John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, and The Field Museum in Chicago
- Has provided service work and training at the Biosphere2 in AZ.
- Houses the only immersive marine science intern program for college and high school students in WNC