--- title: Monterey Bay Aquarium Will Read Fan Mail To Their Fish description: California's Monterey Bay Aquarium promises to read the fan mail you send their fish canonical: https://time.com/4691898/aquarium-fan-mail/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-06T19:19:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:37.835Z og:title: This Aquarium Will Now Read Your Fan Mail to the Fish og:description: Start drafting that letter to your favorite lampfish og:url: https://time.com/4691898/aquarium-fan-mail/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Aquarium Will Now Read Your Fan Mail to the Fish twitter:description: Start drafting that letter to your favorite lampfish twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Aquarium Will Actually Read Your Fan Mail to the Fish Because They're the Real Celebrities by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 6, 2017 7:19 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 6, 2017 7:19 PM UTC The [Monterey Bay Aquarium](http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/) is encouraging people to do something they have probably never done before—write a fan letter to a fish. The California [aquarium](http://time.com/4149216/santa-claus-helped-put-out-an-aquarium-fire-in-utah/?iid=sr-link5) is home to hundreds of fish, as well as invertebrates, adorable sea otters and [octopi](http://time.com/4291327/inky-octopus-new-zealand-national-aquarium-escape/?iid=sr-link3), penguins, sharks, turtles and more. Apparently these marine creatures all have one thing in common—a love of fan mail. Over the weekend, the [aquarium](http://time.com/4224714/seattle-aquarium-octopus-mating-cancelled/?iid=sr-link7) sent out a tweet asking people to send mail to the fangtooth fish, cownose ray, hatchetfish or any of their other residents with the promise that they will read the letters to them. > [](https://twitter.com/MontereyAq/status/838086661128990720) In addition to reading fan mail to the Northern lampfish and the filetail [catshark](http://time.com/4200135/female-shark-eats-male/?iid=sr-link4), the aquarium shows their love for marine life by running the [Seafood Watch program](https://twitter.com/SeafoodWatch), which raises awareness about buying sustainable seafood. Show your love for the aquatic celebrities by crafting letters to leafy sea dragons, odes to the ocean sunfish, and poems to the Pacific hagfish or the pelagic stingray, and sending them along to the [aquarium](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/12/05/the-worlds-largest-aquarium-opens-in-singapore/?iid=sr-link6). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4691898/aquarium-fan-mail/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4691898/aquarium-fan-mail/"},"headline":"This Aquarium Will Actually Read Your Fan Mail to the Fish Because They're the Real Celebrities","datePublished":"2017-03-06T19:19:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:37.835Z","description":"Start drafting that letter to your favorite lampfish","url":"https://time.com/4691898/aquarium-fan-mail/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4691898/aquarium-fan-mail/","name":"This Aquarium Will Actually Read Your Fan Mail to the Fish Because They're the Real Celebrities"}}]}] ```