... why killer whales and white whales are not wanted to be released from prison [Why don't they want to release orcas and white whales from prison]
On April 18, 18:37
Sofya Rusova
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10 belugas have long been painted for sale to Russian dolphinariums, killer whales - to Chinese [dolphinariums]. The cost of Beluga is about 150 thousand dollars, but to Russian dolphinariums are now offered to buy them for 50 thousand, so to speak, at a reduced price. The cost of the killer whale starts from a million dollars and now it can be sold to China three times more expensive.
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Alexander Bronnikov [Director of Oceanarium DV LLC]: "... But when the state allocated quotas, when we incurred expenses, when we signed contracts, everything was approved for us and then we just have to take and release everything?... (...) Here we sit in Moscow now. I am engaged in production twenty years today. I have two fish plants at which one thousand people work. Come to us in the summer and talk to people who live under a snow of three meters. This business is not just about the interests of three people. Thanks to it there live settlements, and you cannot understand that it is impossible to catch a killer whale without base. We have social programs. Give we will carry out a round table at us in the summer and you will see who as lives and is fed from these animals." (...)
Victor Usov [scientific secretary of Committee of RAS ... The UN - the Environment program]...: "... In general all this question arose after the game was joined by the organization under the name "The Ecological Watchkeeping of Sakhalin" ...". [https://newizv.ru/news/incident/18-04-2019/takie-ubytki-pochemu-kasatok-i-beluh-ne-hotyat-vypustit-iz-tyurmy]
Svetlana Akulova: "A zoo - not prison, but an ark"
April 19, 2019, 18:00
... About unique scientific and educational programs, innovative developments in the field of biological science and practice and just about the interesting facts from life of animals the correspondent of "Invest-Forsayta" was told by the CEO of Moscow Zoo, the president of the Union of the Russian zoos and aquariums Svetlana Akulova.
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- Can you as the expert to comment on resonant story with white whales and killer whales which in the press was christened "whale slavery"?
- Yes, we are very concerned about this issue. The Moscow zoo had its own Dolphinarium. But we closed it in 2013. And more it is not planned, because we came to the conclusion that it is wrong to contain dolphins in zoos. In addition, catching these large and highly developed mammals is carried out, as practice shows, inhumane ways. (...)