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Omar Castro, 14, of Los Angeles checks out cigarette butts under the microscopes at Commotion in the Ocean, a family fun day at Heal the Bay’s Santa Monica Pier Aquarium on April 30. Activities included ocean themed arts and crafts, celebrity readings of environmental books and oceanographic demonstrations.

 A man looks at the one of the many tanks, this one containing luminous sea anemone.   photos by Margaret Molloy