NAH_0976 Cropped
Melissa Williams – the current executive
director of the Feiro Marine Life Center and the
project manager for the new aquarium project –
holds a concept drawing for the gallery space of
the new facility. The drawing features a large
sculpture of a Humpback Whale named Big
Mama, which will be suspended from the
ceiling of the aquarium. Big Mama was the first
Humpback to return to the Salish Sea in 1997,
reestablishing the historic population that had
been wiped out by European whalers.