… While it is impressive for children to be up close to a big animal it does not justify the suffering inflicted .

… Children at the Vancouver Aquarium, when looking at Bjossa, are actually viewing a suffering innocent being who has had a truly tragic life. Bjossa was kidnapped at a young age, she has been kept imprisoned for over twenty years, and she has had three babies die because she could not or would not nurture them under her inhuman conditions.

… The message that children receive is that because humans have the power we have the right to subjugate other intelligent life forms with whom we share this planet. This attitude we carry over, at our own peril, to our relationship with nature, with the atmosphere, the forests, the oceans and the lands.

… Just as you can not learn about humanity by studying a human being in a cage, you can't learn about whales by looking at whales in a small tank.

… We no longer need captivity to educate children: we have the technology to teach them about all forms of life. There are effective ways of studying whales and dolphins in the wild, as well as humane ways of educating the public about these animals without keeping them away from their natural environment. Through the magic of an IMAX theatre, CD Rom technology, or the multimedia capabilities of Internet the public can now learn how whales actually live in the wild. In British Columbia, viewing whales in the wild offers a direct powerful experience for tens of thousands of people each year.