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Marine animals face similar challenges: beluga whales have documented gastrointestinal cancers, while farmed Atlantic salmon experience cardiomyopathy syndrome.

Amid financial struggles, the park has been trying to get permission to sell 30 beluga whales to China.

A Canadian amusement park is threatening to euthanise 30 beluga whales after the government blocked its request to send them to China.

"We’ve been to see the brown bears fishing the salmon out of a river in Alaska, we saw beluga whales in Hudson Bay, Canada," Liz says.

The sighting was unusual because the beluga was so tame and they're rarely seen as far south.