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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...

A quahog clam found at Florida's Alligator Point was determined by researchers to be about 214 years old. Photo courtesy of the Gulf Specimen Marine Lab/Facebook Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A 2.6-pound quahog claim that made a rare visit to the Florida coast is believed by researchers to be 214 years old. Blaine Parker said he was collecting shellfish to make chowder at Alligator Point, on St. James Island in Franklin County when he found the gigantic quahog clam, an Atlantic species found most often north of North Carolina. "We were just going to eat it, but we thought about...

Were creeping into fall, and now is time to start thinking of those cooler months before winter arrives. Fall to me means Chowder.

Retired Kennedy family chef Neil Connolly dishes up only flattering tales of the famous clan in his new cookbook, "In the Kennedy Kitchen." The chef, who kept the Kennedy kitchen stocked with lobster, clam chowder and cookies from 1983 to 1995, told an audience in Hyannis the other day that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was one of his family faves. The former first lady was "down to earth" and "considerate" of the hired help, he said. Connolly also had kind words for Jackie O’s son, John F. Kennedy Jr., who would come into the kitchen and politely request a cookie. "He'd...