A group of prominent whale and dolphin biologists from across the world sent a letter this week, urging a Russian federal agency to stop capturing free-ranging orcas in the Sea of Okhotsk for sale to marine parks overseas. In a letter delivered Monday to the Far East office of the Russian Federal Service for Overseeing Natural Resources, 25 scientists noted that such captures are highly stressful to free-ranging orcas, leading to injuries, deaths, fractured social networks within pods and...
https://safety4sea.com/russia-urged-to-stop-capturing-wild-orcas/