SeaQuest Fort Worth Closes Amid Investigation

Victory! SeaQuest Fort Worth Closes Following Pressure From PETA; Police Investigation Opened

Published October 28, 2024 by Clover Raine.

2 min read

Get the champagne ready, because we’ve got great news! After seven years of harming animals and endangering visitors, SeaQuest’s Fort Worth location has finally closed, ending its legacy of misery and death.

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The seedy mall aquarium’s closure came after PETA sent explosive whistleblower reports to Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells, 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: Baby's hand bitten by fish — The mother of an infant told PETA that her child had been bitten at SeaQuest Forth Worth, leaving bloody scrapes across three of her fingers.

SeaQuest Fort Worth was known for its long list of gruesome guest injuries and mass deaths of animals, including five sugar gliders who died horrifically and dozens of fish who reportedly died during transport to the facility after SeaQuest shipped them from a closed location in, according to a whistleblower, “black trash bags or other coolers.”

SeaQuest Continues to Implode

SeaQuest Fort Worth is the fourth of the chain’s locations 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 of the locations implicated in whistleblower claims: Former employees of SeaQuest Folsom told ABC10 that working for the company was “nothing short of traumatizing.”

The chain’s leadership clearly knows the jig is up—Vince Covino, founder and CEO of SeaQuest, left the company this August, following 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 a SeaQuest location refuses to close is one in which animals will continue to suffer within its walls.

Please urge the company to stop exploiting animals immediately and ask it to transfer them to reputable care facilities instead:

Tell SeaQuest to Stop Exploiting Animals!