Bigger orca tanks OK'd in California
The Associated Press
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A California agency approved a $100 million expansion of the tanks SeaWorld uses to hold killer whales in San Diego, but it also banned the park from breeding captive orcas.
The California Coastal Commission added that amendment Thursday as it approved an expansion that would triple the size of the current killer whale enclosures.
However, the commission's approval comes with the provision that no new whales from the wild will be kept there.
Park attendance and income have dipped since the release of the popular 2013 documentary Blackfish, which suggested that SeaWorld's treatment of orcas provokes the whales' violent behavior.
A Section on 10/09/2015