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“This is a desperate drop-in-the-bucket move,” said PETA lawyer Jared Goodman. “A bigger prison is still a prison.

Meanwhile, a law is being considered that would ban the park from breeding its orcas or using them for “entertainment.”

SeaWorld San Diego attracts 4.4 million people a year. During the summer, the park employs 4,500 workers, making it a major San Diego employer.

SeaWorld pays the city $14 million each year to rent its land

Aug. 18, 2014

SeaWorld, stung by criticism, plans a bigger pool for its killer whales By Los Angeles Times, adapted by Newsela staff

Aug. 18, 2014

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double the size of the current pool. It will cover 1.5 acres and will be 50 feet deep and 350 feet in length.

should be completed by 2018

SeaWorld parks at Orlando, Florida, and San Antonio, Texas, will follow with similar projects,

able to walk alongside the whales as if they were at the shore, watch them interact at the depths found in the ocean, or a birds-eye view from above

10 million will support projects examining the hearing, reproduction and nutrition of orcas in the wild.

did not impress

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The animal rights group has called for the orcas to be put in large-scale ocean sanctuaries.

main critic of SeaWorld’s

“This is a desperate drop-in-the-bucket move to try to turn back the clock at a time when people understand the suffering of captive orcas, and it will not save the company,” said PETA lawyer Jared Goodman.

Doubts have been raised over whether it can recover from

“Blackfish

admitted for the first time that attendance at its theme parks has dropped.

earned $37 million, after expenses, during the period, but it was much less than experts had expected.

Friday that it plans to double the size of its orca environment. It will also contribute an additional $10 million to research on the species

"Blackfish," a documentary, criticized SeaWorld's treatment of the orcas.

double the size of the current pool. It will cover 1.5 acres and will be 50 feet deep and 350 feet in length.

should be completed by 2018

10 million will support projects examining the hearing, reproduction and nutrition of orcas in the wild.

The new plans did not impress a main critic of SeaWorld’s orca program, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

animal rights group

orcas to be put in large-scale ocean sanctuaries.

“This is a desperate drop-in-the-bucket move to try to turn back the clock at a time when people understand the suffering of captive orcas, and it will not save the company,” said PETA lawyer Jared Goodman.

came during a week in which SeaWorld’s economic picture took a nosedive. Doubts have been raised over whether it can recover from the controversy sparked by “Blackfish,” which condemned the parks’ treatment of orcas.

admitted for the first time that attendance at its theme parks has dropped.

admitted for the first time that attendance at its theme parks has dropped.

$37 million, after expenses, during the period, but it was much less than experts had expected. Sales fell 1 percent to $405.2 million.

introduced a bill that would ban the park from breeding its orcas or using them for “entertainment.

bill is on hold

insist the breeding program helps researchers study orca reproduction. It also, they said, “enriches the lives of our animals by allowing them to experience, interact with and help raise another member of their pod.”

San Diego politicians strongly support SeaWorld. Each year, SeaWorld pays the city $14 million to rent the land it sits on. Earlier this year, the City Council voted to proclaim March as SeaWorld Month to celebrate the park’s 50th anniversary.

City Council President Todd Gloria said he is “grateful to SeaWorld for the investment in these new facilities.

members will include experts in various fields: an emeritus professor at the University of California-Davis veterinary school, a researcher at UC-Santa Cruz, a physiologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, and others.