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is the waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California.

It is the site of a number of now-defunct sardine canning factories.

The last cannery closed in 1973.

The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his well-known novel Cannery Row.

In the novel's opening sentence, Steinbeck described the street as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.".

The Monterey Bay Aquarium (MBA) is a non-profit public aquarium located in Monterey, California, United States.

The aquarium was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row.

It has an annual attendance of around two million visitors.

It holds thousands of plants and animals, representing more than 600 species on display.

The aquarium benefits from a high circulation of fresh ocean water which is obtained through pipes which pump it in continuously from Monterey Bay.

The sea otter (Enhydra lutris) is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean.

Adult sea otters typically weigh between, making them the heaviest members of the weasel family, but among the smallest marine mammals.

Unlike most marine mammals, the sea otter's primary form of insulation is an exceptionally thick coat of fur, the densest in the animal kingdom.

Although it can walk on land, the sea otter lives mostly in the ocean.

Jellyfish or jellies are softbodied, free-swimming aquatic animals with a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles.

The bell can pulsate to acquire propulsion and locomotion.

The tentacles may be utilized to capture prey or defend against predators by emitting toxins in a painful sting.

Jellyfish species are classified in the subphylum Medusozoa which makes up a major part of the phylum Cnidaria, although not all Medusozoa species are considered to be jellyfish.

Sharks are a group of elasmobranch fish characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton, five to seven gill slits on the sides of the head, and pectoral fins that are not fused to the head.

Modern sharks are classified within the clade Selachimorpha (or Selachii) and are the sister group to the rays.

However, the term "shark" has also been used for extinct members of the subclass Elasmobranchii outside the Selachimorpha, such as Cladoselache and Xenacanthus, as well as other Chondrichthyes such as the holocephalid eugenedontidans.

Under this broader definition, the earliest known sharks date back to more than 420 million years ago.

Acanthodians are often referred to as "spiny sharks"; though they are not part of Chondrichthyes proper, they are a paraphyletic assemblage leading to cartilaginous fish as a whole.