Cetacean Ban at Vancouver Aquarium Called Threat to Marine Mammals
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Victoria Times Colonist] by Nick Eagland and Gordon McIntyre - April 28, 2017
The Vancouver Aquarium is trying to rally public support with an argument that a proposed Vancouver park-board ban on captive cetaceans puts marine mammals in peril.
The park board on May 15 will consider a bylaw that would ban the import and display of live cetaceans — whales, dolphins and porpoises — in city parks, including Stanley Park, where the aquarium logged a record 1.2 million visitors last year.
At a news conference Thursday, Randy Pratt, incoming chairman of the board at the...
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