Like many dolphins living in captivity , the eight - brute seedcase of marine mammal at Baltimore ’s National Aquarium has pass its entire living within an indoor concrete armored combat vehicle . They ’ve never hunted springy fish , see a bed of seaweed , experience the rain , or even had access to direct sunlight . Now , all that is about to change .
PBS NewsHourreports that the National Aquarium has annunciate programme to build an enormous outdoor dolphin sanctuary off the coast of Florida or the Caribbean . The marine museum will relocate its mahimahi by 2020 . It is the first marine museum to annunciate mahimahi move architectural plan .
At the moment , the dolphinfish at the National Aquarium live in a million - and - a - half - gallon tank of artificial brine . The sanctuary , meanwhile , will be somewhere in the ten of millions , or even hundred of millions of gal , according to National Aquarium CEO John Racanelli .
In the video above , PBS NewsHourgoes behind the scenes at the National Aquarium , where Racanelli and aquarium primary science officer Brent Whitaker are design the sanctuary and get the mahimahi ready for the move . Racanelli excuse that public opinion about dolphins keep in incarceration has started to shift , and the aquarium is responding to both that variety and research on how captivity feign mahimahi .
While the marine museum is still committed to train visitors about their dolphins , they will probably do so using a unrecorded picture stream . “ I think that we will be able-bodied to assure that people still get a chance to tune into the lives of these dolphinfish in a way that still breathe in them , yet not have to have them here in Baltimore , ” explain Racanelli . “ Maybe dolphin Skype is in our future . ”
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