DULUTH -- The city has formed a task force to save the Great Lakes Aquarium after attendance and revenue have been about 22 percent below projections at the 2-year-old freshwater attraction.
Staff pay cuts and layoffs were expected this month, leaving the $34 million aquarium with a staff a fraction of the size it opened with in the summer of 2000.
The aquarium is expected to be several hundred thousand dollars off its earlier projections to take in $2.9 million in 2002, which already was down about $1.6 million from last year.
