Let's talk seal rescue. The Vancouver Aquarium claims that if the Park Board passes a bylaw banning cetaceans from Stanley Park, that they won't be able to continue rescuing "marine mammals". This is simply not true. The hundred + seals the Aquarium rescues and releases every year, are rehabilitated in the Aquarium's rescue center, which is NOT located in Stanley Park - so the bylaw would not apply. That rescue center is also where the handful of porpoises the Aquarium has rescued in the past decade have been rehabilitated. Only one of those porpoises, (a 10 year old male) has been released, and the rest either died or ended up in the show tank in Stanley Park performing for their food. That's the part this bylaw will ban, the profiting from rescued cetaceans. The Aquarium also claims that they will need to euthanize rescued porpoises if not allowed in the show tank. Not so. Sea pen sanctuaries are on the way. There is an area already identified in BC and funding is coming... but the Aquarium doesn't want that and claims that sea pens are stressful to cetaceans. If that isn't a self-serving argument, don't know what is! PHOTO: No Whales In Captivity prez Annelise Sorg rescuing an adult seal.