On Monday, January 6, the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) aerial surveillance team spotted two endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, the first right whale sightings in the bay in 2020. The unique markings on the whales’ bodies enabled the CCS team...
On Thursday, April 11 the Center for Coastal Studies right whale aerial survey team spotted two more mom/calf pairs in Cape Cod Bay, bringing the number of calves observed off Cape Cod this season to three. The mothers have been identified as EgNo 4180 and EgNo 3317....
On Sunday, April 7 the Center for Coastal Studies right whale aerial survey team spotted their first right whale calf of the year in Cape Cod Bay. This sighting heralds the arrival of the 2019 calves to their feeding grounds here in the northeast. The calf, which was...
On Monday, April 3, the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) right whale aerial survey team spotted a right whale mother and calf pair in the north end of Cape Cod Bay between Race Point and Marshfield. This sighting came just hours after researchers from the Northeast...
On Tuesday January 17, 2017 scientists on board Center for Coastal Studies’ research vessel Shearwater out of Provincetown spotted two critically endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, five miles south of the Provincetown Harbor. This was the first...
