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When the bodies of some of the orcas washed ashore some months later, there was a huge public outcry of people concerned with the welfare of the animals as well as the impact of captures on wild orcas. This prompted the government to pass the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972 which protected wild orca from being harassed or killed, and requiring whalers to apply for special permits in order to capture orcas.