{"id":294,"date":"2011-03-09T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/?p=294"},"modified":"2011-03-09T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T18:48:15","slug":"industry-profile-fish-retailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/2011\/03\/09\/industry-profile-fish-retailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Profile: Fish Retailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE WORLD OF WET PETS<br \/>\nSeptember 2010<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/files\/2011\/03\/OFHP-e-rasmussen-lg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-296 alignnone\" title=\"OFHP-e-rasmussen-lg\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/files\/2011\/03\/OFHP-e-rasmussen-lg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With 72 aquariums and more than 1000 fish in a studio apartment, Eric Rasmussen was, in his own words, \u201can intense hobbyist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was in college then. But you might say it was a sign of things to come.<\/p>\n<p>Today Rasmussen owns and operates The World of Wet Pets in Portland, Oregon, where he now houses 222 aquariums and more than 10,000 fish.<\/p>\n<p>More businessman than hobbyist these days, Rasmussen and his staff \u2013 Jerry Craig, Tereasa McKay, Paul Dubay, Mike Pool, Tyler Watkins, Tasha Ochoa &#8212; together offer customers more than 100 years of multi-faceted experience in the \u201cworld of wet pets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, that experience is what sets his store apart. Even competing stores know to send customers to Rasmussen when they need help with fish health issues and problem-solving.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hmsc.oregonstate.edu\/visitor\/ornamental-fish-health\/industry-profile\/rasmussen2\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WORLD OF WET PETS September 2010 With 72 aquariums and more than 1000 fish in a studio apartment, Eric Rasmussen was, in his own words, \u201can intense hobbyist.\u201d He was in college then. But you might say it was a sign of things to come. Today Rasmussen owns and operates The World of Wet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/2011\/03\/09\/industry-profile-fish-retailer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Industry Profile: Fish Retailer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[279,1341,285,2430,2434,1342,289,2387,1,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-husbandry","category-aquarium-science","category-educational-opportunities","category-emerging-issues","category-freshwater-tropicals","category-husbandry-training","category-industry-profiles","category-marine-ornamental-fish","category-uncategorized","category-views-of-the-industry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p64BkM-4K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/wetvet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}