Re: “Vision Vancouver’s Sarah Blyth leaving politics for son’s sake,” March 7.
I was so pleased to read park commissioner Sarah Blyth’s comments stating that she thinks it’s time to end the cruel and unnecessary captivity of dolphins and whales in captivity. I couldn’t agree more.
Scientific research and movies like The Cove and more recently Blackfish have created a bigger overall awareness of what it is like for cetaceans living in captivity that we can no longer ignore. As a not so small example, whales need to swim dozens of miles daily. Can we imagine what it is like for them to have to do this in a small fishbowl?
It is time for the Vancouver Aquarium to do the right thing and announce that it will no longer keep dolphins and whales in captivity.
The aquarium does amazing work with their conservation, education and rescue efforts which could be expanded and does not need to include breeding or bringing new Cetaceans into their programme. People would support the aquarium even more for their principled stand.
Hopefully the aquarium will do the right thing . If so, I will applaud them.
If not, I urge all of the individuals and parties running for the park board this November to announce that when elected they will ensure that policy changes will be made that will no longer allow this barbaric practice to continue.
