MYSTIC, Conn. – Three Beluga whales are almost at their new home in a Connecticut aquarium after a legal battle to import them and two others from Canada.
The whales were flown from Ontario to Connecticut on Friday, secured in special stretchers inside individual tanks and accompanied by a veterinarian and other marine-life experts.
They were still going through customs around 6 p.m. The remaining two Belugas are set to arrive at Mystic Aquarium early Saturday from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Government officials from Fisheries and Oceans Canada last month approved the export of the whales, seven months after U.S. officials approved the move.