Captive stingrays released from Dolphin Discovery

[Drew Sailbum]

Several stingrays which had been held at the captive dolphin center Dolphin Discovery were released today back into the North Sound.

Took long enough.

 

[EastEndDiver]

I saw that in The Cay Compass.I agree took to long.Makes me wonder how or why the people who run Dolphin Discovery think they has the right to capture them and put them on display in the first place.

 

[vincent54]

Now we just need to release the Dolphins, Turtles and others held captive. Baby steps are better than none. Cheers

 

[Lopez116]

I heard from some locals I met on island and dove with that Dolphin Discovery took rays from Stingray City and kept them at DD, but it was very hard for me to think they would do something like this. Apparently it was true! I cannot believe they would do something like that. It's shameful.

 

[drrich2]

Makes me wonder how or why the people who run Dolphin Discovery think they has the right to capture them and put them on display in the first place.

Unless they are known to have obtained them illegally, is it really that different from most of the rest of us thinking we have the 'right' to capture animals (wild or domestic) & kill & eat them?

Richard.

 

[Lopez116]

Unless they are known to have obtained them illegally, is it really that different from most of the rest of us thinking we have the 'right' to capture animals (wild or domestic) & kill & eat them?

Richard.

A philosophical question that will inevitably require "line-drawing" in responding. With that said, given my particular moral and ethical viewpoints, I cannot justify keeping dolphins penned up.

 

[EastEndDiver]

Unless they are known to have obtained them illegally, is it really that different from most of the rest of us thinking we have the 'right' to capture animals (wild or domestic) & kill & eat them?

Richard.

I see your point and don't dispute it BUT to me it is the same as going to a petting zoo and shooting one of those animals .

Here is part of an article in the Cay Compass News:

Since the rays were found at Dolphin Discovery, the government has passed an amendment to the Marine Conservation Law, making it illegal to remove certain species of rays from anywhere in local waters or to keep those species of rays in captivity.

 

[Doctorfish]

Keeping captive rays or turtles is a shame. Keeping captive dolphins is a crime. These are highly intelligent mammals that exhibit social behaviour and communication as well as nursing their young. P.S., I don't condone eating mammals either.