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Get the champagne ready, because we’ve got great news! After seven years of harming animals and endangering visitors, SeaQuest’s Fort Worth location is finally closing, ending its legacy of death and misery.
The seedy mall aquarium’s closure follows PETA sending explosive whistleblower reports to the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney, which led to the opening of a criminal cruelty-to-animals investigation by the Fort Worth Police Department.
SeaQuest Fort Worth’s Legacy
SeaQuest is a chain of direct-contact mall aquariums that puts visitors, employees, and animals at serious risk.
SeaQuest Fort Worth was known for its long list of gruesome guest injuries and mass animal deaths, including five sugar gliders who died horrifically, and dozens of fish who reportedly died in transport to the facility after SeaQuest shipped them from a closed location in black trash bags and other coolers.
SeaQuest Continues to Implode
SeaQuest Fort Worth is the fourth SeaQuest location to close in what appears to be a public company meltdown: SeaQuest’s cruelty has become impossible for the public to ignore.
It isn’t even the first SeaQuest location implicated in whistleblower claims: Former employees of SeaQuest Folsom told ABC10 that working for the company was “nothing short of traumatizing.”
Leadership at SeaQuest clearly knows the jig is up—Vince Covino, founder and CEO of SeaQuest, left the company this August, following the already-ballooning allegations of animal deaths, human injuries, and widespread neglect.
What SeaQuest Can Do For Animals
Instead of wasting time and energy by protracting its demise, SeaQuest needs to close its locations nationwide and send all its animal prisoners to care facilities that meet their needs and allow them to live in peace.
Every day that SeaQuest refuses to close is a day that animals continue to suffer within its walls.
Please urge SeaQuest to stop exploiting animals immediately and ask it to transfer them to reputable care facilities instead.
