CCS presents: “The Azores: Stories of Islands and Whales” by Philip Hoare

Nov 27, 2016 | EVENTS

The Center for Coastal Studies presents “The Azores: Stories of Islands and Whales” by Philip Hoare, on Wednesday, January 25 at 7 pm at Napi’s Restaurant, Provincetown. For the past 300 years, Cape Cod and the Azores have shared an extraordinarily...

Entanglement response training in Oman hailed a success

Nov 24, 2015 | PRESS

The latest joint Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) and International Whaling Commission (IWC) entanglement training workshop has just finished in Oman, and has registered a number of significant ‘firsts’. This was the first entanglement workshop on the Arabian Sea...

Another humpback whale freed from entanglement by CCS MAER team

Aug 15, 2015 | PRESS

August 14, 2015 The Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale yesterday afternoon (Friday, August 14) off Cape Cod. The young whale was discovered by whale watchers aboard the Dolphin Fleet of...

Marine Fisheries Research – Squid Embryonic Development

Jun 11, 2015 | Field Notes

It’s squid spawning time in Nantucket Sound! Working with commercial fishermen, CCS Marine Fisheries Research program staff have been studying embryonic development of longfin inshore squid following deposition of eggs in large fish traps called weirs.  The...

Marine Fisheries Research – Juvenile Lobster Habitat

Jan 20, 2015 | Field Notes, Uncategorized

Juvenile lobster habitat has been identified in Pleasant Bay, an estuarine system bordered by several Cape Cod towns. Using lobster settlement collectors provided by the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and deployed with support from the Friends of Pleasant...