An “egregious and chronic failure to provide animals with basic care” led to the deaths of multiple animals at Fort Worth’s SeaQuest aquarium, according to former employees who denounced the systemic neglect to the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA has requested that the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office conduct an investigation into the aquarium, which is inside Fort Worth’s Ridgmar Mall. A spokesperson for the Criminal District Attorney Phil Sorrells said the office has forwarded the information to the Fort Worth Police Department.
SeaQuest did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
Three former employees “described a top-down organizational structure, where SeaQuest management consistently failed to address issues with animal enclosures that were negatively affecting animal health,” PETA said in a letter given to Sorrells on Monday.
The letter tells of two nurse sharks named Icarus and Achilles that “likely starved to death after extreme stress from inappropriate environmental conditions impacted these animals so severely that they stopped eating.”
A PETA press release included a link to a video of Achilles convulsing in an overcrowded tank on the night he died. He was housed with four other sharks and seven eels in a tank suitable for one nurse shark, the press release states.
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