Rescue Team Urges Mariners To Report Entangled Sea Turtles

Rescue Team Urges Mariners To Report Entangled Sea Turtles

August 18, 2021 Over the last few weeks the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown has recorded five instances of endangered leatherback sea turtles being released or partially released from...
CCS Team Disentangles Anchored Humpback Whale off Boston, MA

CCS Team Disentangles Anchored Humpback Whale off Boston, MA

June 10, 2021 Yesterday the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale in the waters east of Boston. The whale was identified by the CCS Humpback Whale Studies team as a mature female named...

CCS team disentangles juvenile humpback off Cape Cod

July 15, 2018 The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team worked to disentangle the 2017 calf of the humpback whale, Rapier, yesterday off Cape Cod. The whale had rope deeply embedded within the base of its flukes, indicating...

Shortest entanglement and longest night for a young humpback whale off Provincetown

December 21, 2016 The Center for Coastal Studies disentangled a young humpback whale yesterday off Provincetown. In a rare, chance occurrence, the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team witnessed the whale become entangled. Within an hour the team helped remove the...

Young humpback whale disentangled off Boston by CCS MAER team

December 11, 2016 The Marine Animal Entanglement Response team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown disentangled a young humpback whale outside Boston this morning. The whale had likely been anchored by its entanglement for the better part of a...