Interview 11040 – Caption Index: 419
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, how did it shape SeaWorld acquiring animals, or for that matter, any aquarium?… Read More
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, how did it shape SeaWorld acquiring animals, or for that matter, any aquarium?… Read More
The Marine Mammal Protection Act was put into effect in 1972 because of the bycatch that the tuna fishermen were having on dolphin populations by encircling them with purse seines. And as they brought the tuna to the surface, a lot of the dolphin were drowning in the nets. There… Read More
So it just became a little bit more, it became a lot more regulated, but it was the right thing to do. I wish they would do that with other types of species of fish and things like that. They just seem to have quotas, but I don’t know if… Read More
You said it takes money, and what’s it take financially to run such a diverse collection and keep it healthy and moving forward at SeaWorld?… Read More
I don’t really recall, to be honest with you, what the total budget was for animal departments. It’s lots, tens of millions, for sure. It costs a lot of money, it does. It costs a lot of money to rescue thousands of birds every year that we do. But, I… Read More
We need to to keep taking polls. Read More
We need to find out, are we doing the right thing?… Read More
And it’s very challenging sometimes, because people say in zoos and aquariums that we educate and we do conservation, but then somebody says, “Well, how much money do you spend at it?” “Well, we probably spend 3% for conservation.” “Well, that’s not enough.” So 3% of what? It’s always a… Read More
They do work together, and we try and make sure that the message, again, and the messenger, the messages that we give to the public is spot on and truthful and factual. Years and years and years ago, you would listen to somebody talk about, “Well, this dolphin, da, da,… Read More
And I keep saying we have, but we developed. And I think we need that feedback because education today is changing in the school systems, obviously, too. And with social media and the way people seem to use the tools of social media, children or younger people don’t seem to… Read More
So we have to keep finding out, what is the message?… Read More
We kill cows to eat them. Hopefully we do in it a humane manner. We kill chickens in a humane manner, but food is humanely disposed of for our pleasure. You talked about education. Read More
How does SeaWorld measure the impact of its education programs, if it does, I presume it does, on the public’s perception of the importance of these marines mammals?… Read More
Is the education department and animal management, again, working together?… Read More
And do you get feedback?… Read More
A drive fishery is a technique that goes back 100 years in Japan where fishermen in the southern islands would come upon schools of dolphins and they would actually put pipes in the water off the sides of their ship and form a wall and make noise and drive them,… Read More
They did it last year. They did it the year before. They did it 100 years ago, and they’re gonna do it when no aquarium in China is buying the dolphins, which they’re still doing today. But, basically, what we had to do was really separate ourselves. The drive fishery… Read More
And if the Japanese people wanna do that because that’s their choice of food sources, who are we to criticize them?… Read More
And so we’re sharing the knowledge with millions of people because of these types of exhibits. And I think some of the plans that we had for the future of some of the cetaceans pools are gonna get more involved. And we just build a beautiful pool in San Antonio… Read More
They gotta go find food and water.” And they do use the same paths every day, so it does put a little bit more real into what’s real. And it gives, again, back to my mantra, I want the public to change their behavior a little bit more and get… Read More