Marine Entanglement Team Shares Knowledge with Brazilian Counterparts

Marine Entanglement Team Shares Knowledge with Brazilian Counterparts

Earlier this month, the Center welcomed four colleagues from government agencies and NGO’s from Brazil for entanglement response training. Among the participating agencies were the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade, Instituto Argonauta para...
CCS MAER Team Frees Humpback Whale off Cape Ann

CCS MAER Team Frees Humpback Whale off Cape Ann

Provincetown, MA – On Saturday, August 12, the Center for Coastal Studies’ (CSS)  Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) disentangled a humpback whale off Cape Ann. The whale, known as Pinball, was with her calf at the time. The prognosis for both whales is...
Update: Entangled North Atlantic Right Whale “Cottontail”

Update: Entangled North Atlantic Right Whale “Cottontail”

October 31, 2020  The CCS Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) is continuing to track an entangled North Atlantic right whale identified as #3920, nicknamed Cottontail. Cottontail, an 11-year-old male, was found by the CCS aerial survey team on October 19,...
CCS Frees Entangled Humpback Whale off Chatham, MA

CCS Frees Entangled Humpback Whale off Chatham, MA

June 26, 2019 On Monday, June 24 the Marine Animal Entanglement Response team at the Center for Coastal Studies responded to an entangled humpback whale east of Chatham, MA. It was a challenging rescue operation for the team: The young whale was free-swimming in a...

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...