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Northshore October 2025
Children huddle around a low touch tank, plunging their hands into the frigid, salty water to get a chance to touch or hold a lobster or a huge, otherworldly looking moon snail, while greenish-brown seaweed ripples in the artificial current. In other tanks, cinder blocks and pipes sit among scuttling crabs, and blue mussels cling to the sides of a thick post, where a starfish is tucked at the bottom. A sign on the wall invites visitors to “look up!” to see the underside of a wooden dory with a fishing net attached to the end.  Michael DeKoster Just feet away, outside in the cold Gloucester Harbor, scenes just like th
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