Shark Attack at Aquarium of the Pacific
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jetfixer
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opiniongirl:
Lets not even go there....
I think everyone is just sending him PMs for the location, so that the BBQ doesn't get ruined by protestors.opiniongirl:
Now that I've been trolled into that one, I'm going to log off for the night and go have a steak.
Christian
Marine mammal and shark aquaria represent a small minority of aquarium applications, except for the top 1% category for volumes. And even out of those, quite a few do not cater to the public for entertainment value. That's also not including rehabilitation and/or breeding tanks.
Unlike decades earlier, a large proportion (if not majority) of today's captive marine mamals were born and raised in aquaria, and could not be reasonably educated to live in the wild if released. Behaviorally those specimens can be classified as domesticated. In such cases having the critters do backflips to pop music isn't really that outrageous at all.
For most captive large aquaria animals, their lifespan greatly exceeds that of the wild. This isn't the technology of the 1960's and 1970's anymore... for the most part anyway. Today's facilities and husbandry care are pretty dang good. Diets are specially made and delivered, exotic-animal vets are on call, water quality is computer controlled and monitored, and tank designs facilitate low maintenance and animal health.
It's rare nowadays for marine mammals to be captured for aquarium purposes, unless they are injured or very rare. In both cases capturing them either helps them, or the species. Myself, I've helped capture a couple dolphins for such purposes.
Unlike decades earlier, a large proportion (if not majority) of today's captive marine mamals were born and raised in aquaria, and could not be reasonably educated to live in the wild if released. Behaviorally those specimens can be classified as domesticated. In such cases having the critters do backflips to pop music isn't really that outrageous at all.
For most captive large aquaria animals, their lifespan greatly exceeds that of the wild. This isn't the technology of the 1960's and 1970's anymore... for the most part anyway. Today's facilities and husbandry care are pretty dang good. Diets are specially made and delivered, exotic-animal vets are on call, water quality is computer controlled and monitored, and tank designs facilitate low maintenance and animal health.
It's rare nowadays for marine mammals to be captured for aquarium purposes, unless they are injured or very rare. In both cases capturing them either helps them, or the species. Myself, I've helped capture a couple dolphins for such purposes.
caveseeker7
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Same happens to men during marriage, I don't hear you whine for them.opiniongirl:
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Nay
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I was just about to jump on to share that the little 
were arrested. But thanks, because that's way more info than I got.
Vicious and Stupid.
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were arrested. But thanks, because that's way more info than I got.Vicious and Stupid.
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I just emailed the DA for Long Beach and asked him to prosecute these young men so that they not only receive appropriate punishment but the obvious mental help that they need.
His email is: prosecutor@longbeach.gov
For all those that are as outraged as I am, I hope that you will take the time and let the DA know it.
His email is: prosecutor@longbeach.gov
For all those that are as outraged as I am, I hope that you will take the time and let the DA know it.
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Nay
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Thanks for the link Ann Maire, I just emailed him.
According to this LA Times article, they also seem to have put some of the bamboo sharks into the larger area hoping they'd be eaten.
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Teens Arrested in Shark Killings
Suspects allegedly tortured and killed two sharks and a sting ray at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.
By Nancy Wride
Times Staff Writer
3:13 PM PST, November 9, 2004
Four Long Beach teenagers were arrested early today for allegedly breaking into the Aquarium of the Pacific, where they are accused of torturing and killing two sharks and a sting ray.
The incident at the popular tourist attraction left aquarium officials and city leaders in shock. The suspects, three 13-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy, allegedly pulled the fish out of their tanks late Sunday or early Monday, stabbing and pounding them with plastic pipes. They were left for dead at various places around the aquarium area.
Detectives believe the teens also placed smaller bamboo sharks into the tank reserved for larger sharks, where they would have likely been eaten had it not been at night when the bigger fish were sleeping.
The teens were arrested late Monday when they broke into the aquarium for a second time and headed back to the shark lagoon. One of the dead sharks, a 3-foot chocolate brown Nurse Shark named Michelle, had been at the aquarium since it opened six years ago and was popular attraction.
According to this LA Times article, they also seem to have put some of the bamboo sharks into the larger area hoping they'd be eaten.
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Teens Arrested in Shark Killings
Suspects allegedly tortured and killed two sharks and a sting ray at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.
By Nancy Wride
Times Staff Writer
3:13 PM PST, November 9, 2004
Four Long Beach teenagers were arrested early today for allegedly breaking into the Aquarium of the Pacific, where they are accused of torturing and killing two sharks and a sting ray.
The incident at the popular tourist attraction left aquarium officials and city leaders in shock. The suspects, three 13-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy, allegedly pulled the fish out of their tanks late Sunday or early Monday, stabbing and pounding them with plastic pipes. They were left for dead at various places around the aquarium area.
Detectives believe the teens also placed smaller bamboo sharks into the tank reserved for larger sharks, where they would have likely been eaten had it not been at night when the bigger fish were sleeping.
The teens were arrested late Monday when they broke into the aquarium for a second time and headed back to the shark lagoon. One of the dead sharks, a 3-foot chocolate brown Nurse Shark named Michelle, had been at the aquarium since it opened six years ago and was popular attraction.
cyklon_300
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should NOT be placed in the correctional system morass.
Instead, these misguided youth should be given scuba lessons and taken into the sea to witness the grace and beauty of the creatures they senselessly tortured and mutilated.
When they are shown first-hand the wonders of the underwater world, a new appreciation for living things will come upon them and they will then learn to enjoy the diversity of biota that dwells there.
At the moment that this sense of oneness with the environment forms within their previously calloused and uncaring little hearts, we can then shut their air supply off...
Instead, these misguided youth should be given scuba lessons and taken into the sea to witness the grace and beauty of the creatures they senselessly tortured and mutilated.
When they are shown first-hand the wonders of the underwater world, a new appreciation for living things will come upon them and they will then learn to enjoy the diversity of biota that dwells there.
At the moment that this sense of oneness with the environment forms within their previously calloused and uncaring little hearts, we can then shut their air supply off...
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