Andrew is a freelance marine biologist in North Carolina focused on population and conservation genetics in hydrothermal vent communities.
Hat tip to Miriam from Deep Sea News for this amazing moment in my life.
~Southern Fried Scientist
Jean-Michel Cousteau with an orca. Photo credit: Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society
The death of Sea World trainer Dawn Branchaeu revived an old debate over whether it is appropriate to keep orca whales in captivity. Many people are calling for all captive orcas to be set free, but I continue to support aquariums because of the roles they serve as educators and conservationists. Although several readers have pointed out that the sea world incident itself would make for a solid ethical debate, I am instead going to take you back more than 15 years to a movie that started this whole movement: Free Willy.
Continue reading Ethical Debate: Should we have freed Willy?
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