For over 50 years, this charming aquarium has been celebrating Cornish wildlife and showcasing the superb aquatic world simply past the constructing’s partitions.
A volunteer-run operation, the aquarium’s fish had been caught and donated by Cornish fishing boats. It is free to enter and discover, and any cash or credit score card donations go in the direction of conserving the pretty Mevagissey Harbour maintained.
The aquarium is housed in an previous lifeboat home inbuilt 1897. Up till 1930, three distinct lifeboats had been saved there. Since then, the constructing has had many makes use of, starting from a gun storage throughout the Second World Struggle to a café.
At this time, the attraction is a charity undertaking geared toward elevating consciousness on native sea life and bridging the hole between the fishing trade and most of the people.
