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For immediate release:
October 15, 2021
Contact:
Megan Wiltsie 202-483-7382
Miami – The Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners is ready to vote on the Dolphin Company to take over the Miami Aquarium lease on Tuesday – and PETA will attend the meeting to urge commissioners to reject the plan and abandon the Marine Aquarium lease altogether.
When: Tuesday, October 19, 9:30 am
Where: Miami-Dade Commission Chambers, Steven P. Clark Government Center, 111 NW First St., Miami
PETA will point out that the current operator of the aquarium, Palace Entertainment, violated the terms of the lease due to its failure to maintain the facility and not take proper care of the animals. Some of the flagrant violations of the Federal Animal Protection Act (AWA), including the fact that a lone killer whale, Lolita recently suffered from eye damage, fed on partially decomposed fish, and was forced to perform stunts that likely injured her, have just been discovered in caustic 17-page report. Meanwhile, apparent violations of state animal cruelty laws remain under investigation by the state attorney’s office.
“Both Palace Entertainment and its predecessor failed to provide sensitive marine mammals like Lolita with proper care and certainly robbed them of any semblance of real life,” says PETA executive vice president Tracy Reiman. “PETA asks the commission of delegates not to sign the report on the suffering at the Sea Aquarium and to throw this lease in the bin.”
At a meeting on Tuesday, PETA will ask that if the lease is approved, the lease is in very the minimum is to be updated to require Dolphin to maintain the facility in accordance with the AWA. Currently, the lease only requires federal compliance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act, a law that was amended nearly three decades ago to remove supervision of captive marine mammals.
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