Public outcry has led a Japanese amusement park to close its ice skating rink, which prominently featured around 5,000 dead, frozen fish.
The Space World park in Kitakyushu faced a sea of threats from protesters, who called its aquarium-themed rink “immoral,” “cruel” and “disrespectful of life.”
Reports say the park aimed to give visitors the “sense of sliding on the sea.”
The sprat and mackerel fish (among others) were reportedly positioned to spell out the word “hello” in one area of the rink. In another, they formed an arrow pointing the direction the skaters should follow.
Angry consumers took to the park’s Facebook page to express their displeasure. Eventually, park execs issued the following statement to the Japan Times:
We deeply apologize to people who felt uncomfortable about the Ice Aquarium event. As a result, we have stopped the event from today ... Misunderstandings spread on the internet that the fish were frozen while they were still alive, but that was not the case. We should have explained more.
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The fish, the company has explained, were already dead when they were purchased.
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