The Canadian government has endorsed a plan to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park and zoo in Ontario to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain. There are 30 belugas and four dolphins at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario that still face mass euthanasia should the deal fall through. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has issued the first batch of permits to move the whales and is set to issue different permits closer to the move, which is expected to take place in the next few months. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson said on Wednesday that there's "still more work to be done, but it’s a step forward.”