Apr 25, 2025 | PRESS
CCS Executive Director Anne-Marie Runfola delivers remarks on Massachusetts Right Whale Day at the New England Aquarium. BOSTON — In an effort to promote conservation of North Atlantic right whales, Governor Maura Healey declared April 24th as Massachusetts Right...
Apr 18, 2025 | PRESS
UPDATE, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1:30 PM: An additional North Atlantic right whale mother/calf pair was sighted in Cape Cod Bay by the CCS aerial observer team this morning, after the publication of this release. The whales were identified as EgNo 4150, Accordion, and the...
Apr 15, 2025 | PRESS
PROVINCETOWN, MA – The Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team at the Center for Coastal Studies is working to disentangle a North Atlantic right whale that has fishing gear caught in his mouth. The young whale, known as #5110, has been entangled since...
Apr 7, 2025 | PRESS
The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) is offering three public events to mark Massachusetts Right Whale Day on Thursday, April 24. Whale Walk, 11 am – 12:30 pm The special events begin with a Whale Walk on Herring Cove Beach, an ideal spot from which to observe right...
Apr 2, 2025 | PRESS
Marine debris collected by the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) on Cape Cod and Boston Harbor shorelines, together with retired or recovered fishing gear known as ghost gear, are the media used by artists at three exhibits currently on display in Provincetown,...
Mar 31, 2025 | PRESS
The Center for Coastal Studies’ Marine Debris and Plastics Program will host students, teaching assistants and a professor from Cornell University for a week-long residency March 31 through April 5, 2025. The visit coincides with the program’s ghost gear removal...
