So the old user term is no longer there. It’s becoming more of a sustainable aquarium for the future. You’re owned by Busch Entertainment. In 2009, Busch Entertainment is sold to Blackstone Groups and renamed SeaWorld Entertainment. Read More
Again, just another change in ownership?… Read More
Does this affect- Actually Anheuser-Busch sold to a company called InBev, which was a beer company, a large beverage company out of Europe. They bought the Anheuser-Busch breweries, the brand, and the parks came with it. So there was about a year in there that we worked for InBev. That… Read More
And Dr. Judy St. Leger, who was a veterinarian and a pathologist within our group, basically asked me, she said, “So you really wanna do this, don’t you?” And I said, “Absolutely, why can’t we raise fish?… Read More
It seems like we can raise everything else.” So we started this program and we got aquariums around North America to put special skimmer nets in their skimmer baskets. And, most of the time, the spawning goes on late at night in the different big, large aquariums with the many… Read More
And their food source changes at different intervals. And we didn’t know what species they were until they got to certain stages. So these guys are unlocking the nuts and the bolts of each one of these different egg… We don’t know what the eggs are when they show up,… Read More
Is this information getting out to people, that this kind of program or programs that, obviously, many aquariums are participating in?… Read More
Did you have other conservation or research things that you said, “And that way I can be the champion of it now that I’m in this position”?… Read More
Absolutely, there was a lot of different conservation and research we wanted to involved ourselves with. With killer whale research in Iceland we did a lot of work. We did a lot of work with penguins in South Africa, which we still do today. We’ve done a lot of work… Read More
Well, now a French angel fish is this big and it costs $500 why?… Read More
Well, because there aren’t any more big ones. And the world is getting smaller and the coral reefs are getting smaller and the fish are not as sustainable as they used to be. We need to be able to raise these kinds of fish.” And they looked at me and… Read More
We’re for profit.” And I go, “No, no, no, no, we wanna start a foundation within the company that’s a 501c3 that we can raise money to do conservation outside the company.” Even though the company was spending lots of money on these programs. I said, “Now we can get… Read More
And I’m gonna talk about that in more detail, but this was your baby?… Read More
Yeah, it was my baby, and Ginny’s. Read More
But we did we built the facility indoor and outdoor. Read More
Did you have a say in research and conservation projects now?… Read More
Yeah, the research and conservation was under my umbrella too. We had some great folks that do science, great conservation programs. Read More
At one point, also, I went to August Busch and John Roberts and said, I don’t remember what year it was, it’s been about 14 years ago, maybe, with Ginny Busch, and we said, “We wanna start a not for profit.” And he looked at me and he goes, “What… Read More
But, you know, if you come up with a half-ass idea off the cuff and speculate and things like that, they look at you like, “Well, what the heck?… Read More
You’re not very well prepared with this, are you?” So you have to be prepared to do that. And I can remember a time where John Roberts asked me, he says, “If we build this Wild Arctic structure, in Orlando it’s hot. So we’re probably gonna have to enclose it.”… Read More