Celebrate Sharks- Sharktoberfest San Francisco

A Celebration of the Shark

Enjoy music, shark art, sustainable seafood and live local sharks at the Aquarium of the Bay. See shark films and learn about our local sharks and the white sharks that swim across entire oceans and back again.

Hear from shark biologists and shark experts and learn why sharks matter.

Event Schedule

Friday Oct 16, 6:30-10:00 PM

Sharktoberfest Benefit Party

Music, Sustainable seafood, wines and beer.

Prizes Best shark and shark prey costume contest

Sharksaver Award to Jim Toomey, Creator: Sherman’s Lagoon

Silent Auction to benefit Shark tagging and Shark media outreach program.

Saturday Oct 17, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Science, Films & Sharks!

Keynote Speech

The State of Sharks, Wallace J Nicholls, PhD

Films

Rethink the Shark, Save Our Seas Foundation

City of the Shark, David McGuire

Requeim, Bryce Groark

Sharks: Stewards of the Reef, Holiday Johnson

White Shark Café, Sean Aronson

Discussion and audience participation

Presenters:

Jim Toomey, Author Sherman’s Lagoon

Maria Brown, Superintendent, GFNMS

Sal Jorgenson, PhD Hopkins Marine Station

Jonathon Kathrein, Founder, Future Leaders for Peace

Sponsored by Sea Stewards and the San Francisco Aquarium of the Bay, at the Embarcadero, San Francisco

Co Sponsored by the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, the

Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Association and the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival.

All events include access to the San Francisco Aquarium of the Bay.

For tickets adn information http://www.aquariumofthebay.org/ticket.aspx?i=14474

I wish I was still in town! Please help to organize shark fin awareness in Chinatown and on Clement St. All of the Dim Sum places serve fin and so do the restaurants. New Mai Wa too. Good luck! If you need help I can organize a few volunteers for you.