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Mississippi Coast marine center facing backlash over sea lion’s death
ACTION ALERT:
Contact:
Dr. Robert Gibbens
Director, Animal Welfare Operations, USDA-APHIS
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Please levy the MAXIMUM FINE against the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies
for their blatant disregard of the Animal Welfare Act when their negligence
allowed a sea lion to die. Their behavior should NOT be tolerated and MUST be punished to
the fullest extent of the law.
Mississippi Coast marine center facing backlash over sea lion’s death
From Janae Jordan, WXXV25.com, June 9, 2022
A national watchdog group filed a federal complaint against Gulfport’s
Institute for Marine Mammal Studies after a sea lion’s death.
According to the complaint, on March 5th, 2020, Jester, a six-year-old sea
lion, underwent surgery on his left eye to remove a lesion and died while
under anesthesia.
On March 11th, 2021, IMMS received a critical violation inspection from the
USDA relevant to water quality issues stated that four of the five sea lions
at IMMS had eye issues, all likely caused by the use of too much chlorine in
the water.
According to the complaint from ‘Stop Animal Exploitation Now,’ IMMS also
was performing research on captive marine mammals without being registered
as a research facility.
However, WXXV reached out to IMMS and received documents signed by the USDA
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service stating they are able to perform
research on their animals. IMMS Director Moby Solangi said, “We deal with a
lot of stranded animals that come with a lot of problems. Jester, our sea
lion, we were doing surgery to rectify an issue. Unfortunately, it didn’t
make it. These animals strand for various reasons, sick and injured. This is
what we do. We were giving it a home. Unfortunately, it didn’t survive the
surgery. We are in full compliance. They had requested us to look at certain
issues and all of them have been taken care of.”
In a recent inspection on March 3rd, 2022, IMMS was said to have no issues
with chlorine levels and is in compliance.
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