SeaWorld's Opposition to the Drive Fisheries

Each year, hundreds of dolphins are slaughtered by Japanese fishermen in a brutal hunt known as the "drive fishery". Stewart Clark, head of SeaWorld's Discovery Cove, discusses the company's position on this practice. SeaWorld, like every accredited zoo and aquarium in America, stands against the drive fishery and remains committed to seeing it stopped. Learn more at http://www.actfordolphins.org

SeaWorld's commitment goes further, though. Today, as they have for the past 45 years, the SeaWorld parks dedicate their time, energy, and resources to real world action intended to improve the lives of dolphins, whales, and hundreds of other marine species. This dedication is most clearly illustrated in the over 17,000 ill, abandoned, orphaned, and injured animals rescued by SeaWorld to date. The goal of this program is returning healthy animals to the wild.

To find out more about SeaWorld's rescue, rehabilitation, and release program, watch the World of Difference: Animal Rescue video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXuqsnqm72I

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[iantaylor124]

Bullshit. If you were against it you would have let Ric O'Barry talk at that meeting seen in the beginning of The Cove.

[DPBuilders]

What a load of tosh - they took some of the animals from the drive fisheries to save them???? Why didn't they rehabilitate them and release them back into the ocean? They may do some good work with animals that need help but that doesn't help the animals that are imprisoned, have to perform day after day in these false conditions and cannot swim free. Money, money, money is what drives seaworld. Makes me bloody mad :(

[BulgarianInCanada]

all talk and no action why doesnt seaworld go to taiji and end that bloody drive hunt. then i will maybe support sea world until then sea world is just a company that is all talk and no action and also keeps animals in cruel tanks (lolita for example) to make profit.m

[Stopthegreed]

Saved them?? What a croc of shyt. Incarcerated them you mean. There are hundreds of thousands of Whale/seal and wildlife watching groups that can take people to see all that Sea World has. And you get to see them in the wild and see their Natural behavior, not doing crappy tricks in Sterile concrete tanks. You people are a disgrace.

[kellistanko]

My first interaction with a Whale/Dolphin was when I assisted in a Pilot Whale stranding, THAT is what made me want to keep them in the wild more than ever. Sea World you took two of them excited that is was going to increase the gene pool and make you more revenue. While I appreciate your "concern" for the drive hunts, you are not helping the situation. Rehabilitate and release should be your number one priority.....

[xTashaKateWoodx]

dolphins dont belong in captivity. Thats all im saying.

[UltraEpicLoser]

@oceanicella I am pro cap. I do believe that these animals should be in the wild. But wasn't the dog originally taken away from the wild. Also Zoos and aquariums do help fund research and preservation of the animals. I am appalled at some treatment of the animals and their lack of environments. They can be places of education about the environment and animals. Some animals have been brought back from extinction because of captivity.

[felixandvolcano]

total bullshit and a waste of time to watch.

[seinho11]

rescued more like paid to take the dolphins away.

[chuckielong1]

Fuck seaworld man if you want to be with "connect" with animals go to the fucking wild man go to places where those animal live man fuck. keeping these wild life in some shitty tank for peoples to look at them eeach day making fucking noises and perform for fishes fucking ashole