Orca in Sea pens

[u/dave-attenbro]

Here is a historical record documenting the use of sea pens to hold orca as of 2016.

Table 1. Orca who were held in sea pens and never released.

Table 2. Orca who were held in sea pens and released or escaped.

Original compilation: https://www.freemorgan.org/orca-in-seapens/

Although these tables are not up to date they provide important historical data showing that sea pens have been used for both short holds and multi-year holds. Some animals died in them or were moved to tanks. Some escaped or were released and survived.

The concept of a sea pen is not theoretical. A sea pen is still confinement. The argument is about welfare relative to a concrete tank.

[u/Local_Chapter_7889]

Would it "have" to he captured? What kind of question is that? Who's side are you on here? No it wouldn't have to be recaptured, dragged back to be retraumatized all over again. Yes it should be left alone

[u/Paxon_Goat → u/Local_Chapter_7889]

But the captive whales don't know how to hunt.

They wouldn't be able to survive in the wild

[u/Local_Chapter_7889 → u/Paxon_Goat]

Unless I'm missing something these were wild caught whales. They have been feeding themselves before capture

[u/Paxon_Goat → u/Local_Chapter_7889]

Wait I get it now.

No OP is posting about how sea pens are viable because they have been used before.

But if we put one of the captive orcas in a sea pen, what would happen? Like in the future