SeaWorld San Diego has followed through on its promise to sue the California Coastal Commission for approving a new orca enclosure, but only with the condition that the park stop breeding and transferring its killer whales.
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SeaWorld Entertainment has since said that its Blue World expansion project is on hold and it might divert some of the $100 million budget to another attraction.
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During a contentious seven-hour hearing in October, the California Coastal Commission voted unanimously to give SeaWorld permission to double the size of its orca pools so long as the park ends its captive breeding program and does not transfer any of its marine mammals to other facilities. SeaWorld said in a statement Tuesday that because the whales are not part of the coastal or marine environment, they are not part of the commission’s jurisdiction.
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“Shame on SeaWorld for wasting California taxpayer dollars by filing a lawsuit which existing case law suggests will nearly certainly fail”, Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) Executive Director Stephen Wells said in a statement.
“The Coastal Commission is not the overseer of all activity that takes place in the coastal zone – its jurisdiction extends only to the regulation of development that affects the coastal or marine environment, including public access thereto”, the suit says.
“The condition forces SeaWorld to either agree to the eventual demise of its lawful and federally-regulated orca exhibition, or withdraw the permit application and forego the effort to enhance the orcas’ habitat”, it alleges.
“SeaWorld has not collected an orca from the wild in more than 35 years and has committed to not doing so in the future”, attorneys said.
SeaWorld has also pledged $10 million in matching funds for research on endangered orcas in the Pacific Northwest, the complaint states.
SeaWorld filed the complaint in the Superior Court of the state of California.
SeaWorld San Diego will phase out its iconic killer whale show as early as next year.
FILE – In this November 30, 2006, file photo, people watch through glass as a killer whale swims by in a display tank at SeaWorld in San Diego.
Keeping orca in captivity, however, has become a cause celebre for animal rights protestors, an issue explored in the controversial 2013 documentary Blackfish. SeaWorld announced a week later it would fight the ruling.
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“It’s clear that the company’s primary intention in pursuing the Blue World Project was to breed more orcas to confine to tanks”, PETA wrote.
