Aug 10, 2016 | PRESS
August 10, 2016 The Center for Coastal Studies’ Marine Animal Entanglement Response team disentangled a humpback whale on Monday, August 8 off Provincetown, MA. The young whale was anchored in fishing gear but was able to pull the gear off the sea floor to access the...
Aug 5, 2016 | PRESS
August 5, 2016. Video below. For the past three days, CCS researchers have been monitoring the carcass of a small minke whale in Cape Cod Bay off North Truro. Data collected during these 72 hours shows that there is as much to be learned from the whales in death as in...
Jul 7, 2016 | PRESS
July 7, 2016 The CCS response team worked to help a badly entangled humpback whale off Cape Cod yesterday. The whale, which was towing heavy rope and a large buoy, was first reported by a commercial fisherman on Tuesday morning off Chatham, MA. USCG Station Chatham...
Jun 22, 2016 | PRESS
June 22, 2016 Today the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team from the Provincetown based Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) worked to disentangle a large fin whale on Stellwagen Bank, east of Boston. Scroll down for video. The team managed to remove most of...
May 26, 2016 | PRESS
May 26, 2016 This afternoon the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team disentangled a young humpback whale in Cape Cod Bay off Provincetown. The entanglement was reported to the Provincetown Harbormaster by beachgoers at...
May 19, 2016 | PRESS
May 18, 2016 On Wednesday, May 18 the Center for Coastal Studies’ Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team responded to a severely entangled adult humpback whale, named Foggy, off Cape Ann, Massachusetts. The team had to leave heavy rope that was embedded...