Not really. That’s the sad part. They seemingly have a death sentence either way. They’ve tried to rehabilitate captive whales multiple times and it’s not been successful. If you dumped them in the wild they would essentially just starve to death.
I read the headline and with a grim sigh thought "good hopefully this whole thing will be shut down sooner." It's evil and wrong. It's like keeping a human in a broom closet.