Marineland says its 30 belugas may have to be euthanized. How would that even happen?

If you can’t leave them, sell them or send them to a sanctuary, what do you do?

While Marineland doesn’t have any current plans to euthanize the 30 belugas swimming around what's left of the Niagara Falls amusement park, the company threatened to do so last week in a letter to Canada’s federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson which was obtained by CBC News.

The park would be faced with the “devastating decision of euthanasia” unless the federal government could provide them financial support, Marineland said in a letter.

The message came days after the minister denied Marineland’s request for permits to send the whales to Chimelong Ocean Kingdom, a theme park in China which was interested in buying the mammals. The government said it aimed to prevent the whales from being used fo