I wouldn't say the conditions are bad there, I think it is just too difficult to create an artificial environment for an organism as large and complex as a whale, ya know? A species that needs so much space, and with such an intelligent and communal nature, I just don't know how you recreate that in captivity. I'm all for protecting animals using captive programs, but I think we have a ways to go before we can reliably protect whales that way. All species are unique; what works for one animal doesn't always work for another, so perhaps we need to consider that captive programs are not the way to protect whales.