The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is moving to revoke the permits for SeaQuest Aquarium due to repeated violations of animal welfare standards. The aquarium has 20 days to appeal the decision, which includes ceasing public interactions with animals, providing veterinary records, and testing birds for avian chlamydiosis.
on Jan. 31 notifying the aquarium it has started to revoke its permits. The move comes two years after state officials placed the facility on probation after
If SeaQuest requests a hearing to appeal the notice, the state will review the request and either grant or deny a hearing, according to the letter. A denial would be considered the agency’s final action, it said. “The Department has constructively seized all regulated animals possessed by SeaQuest,” the letter said.
The violations included conditions that allowed animals in the SeaQuest aquarium to attack each other for years, poorly constructed enclosures, inadequate veterinary records and animals found with missing limbs, the state’s previous letter said.
ANIMAL RIGHTS AQUARIUM PERMIT REVOCATION NEW JERSEY ANIMAL WELFARE
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