Like other anthozoans, sea pens reproduce by co-ordinating a release of sperm and eggs into the water column; this may occur seasonally or throughout the year.
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Next up on the path to independence will be graduating Keiko from the relatively small sea pen to a more free-ranging, netted-off area in Klettsvik Bay.
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There, he will shuck the celebrity he has known for most of his 20 years, trading it for a remote sea pen visited only by his trainers.
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Steve Claussen stands braced on the sea pen walkway, documenting Keiko the killer whale's behavior as he frolics in the North Atlantic with his favorite blue ball.
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After a trip through town, Keiko will be loaded onto a barge and taken to a sea pen _ the size of a football field _ in a protected cove.
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Keiko continued to swim laps around his sea pen at a leisurely pace, exploring and then resurfacing while four divers who have been his friends for years, waited and watched anxiously.
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After being kept in a sea pen in Puget Sound and nursed back to health, Springer was then transferred to a sea pen off of northern Vancouver Island from where she was ultimately released.
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The average lifespan for captive male orcas is 28 or 29 . And foundation staffers plan to put him in the ocean _ albeit in a sea pen _ within 12 to 24 months.
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The children of Heimaey are equally jazzed about the prospect of bringing Keiko to their island and putting him in a sea pen that could serve as his halfway house to the open ocean.
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After being kept in a sea pen in Puget Sound and nursed back to health, Springer was then transferred to a sea pen off of northern Vancouver Island from where she was ultimately released.
