Under the provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, these orcas belong to the people of the United States, not SeaWorld, and we have every right to access information about their health and welfare.
GABRIELLE RUSSON: ‘Animal activists are suing to put pressure on a federal agency to force SeaWorld to release whale necropsy reports for three orcas — including one made infamous in the “Blackfish” documentary. A group of animal activists, which includes PETA and the Animal Welfare Institute, filed the lawsuit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for its stance that it doesn’t have the legal authority to force SeaWorld to publicly release necropsy reports and veterinary records for the deceased orcas Tilikum, Kasatka and Kyara.
Tilikum, the infamous whale featured in the “Blackfish” documentary that was involved in three human deaths, died in 2017 from a bacterial lung infection. That same year, Kasatka died in SeaWorld’s San Diego park and Tilikum’s granddaughter, Kyara, died in San Antonio… “Under the provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, these orcas belong to the people of the United States, not SeaWorld, and we have every right to access information about their health and welfare,” said David Phillips of Earth Island Institute, one of the plaintiffs, in a statement’. SOURCE…
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