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...

MAER Disentangles Two Leatherback Turtles in Cape Cod Bay

August 27, 2016 The Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled two leatherback sea turtles today in Cape Cod Bay. Reported sightings of leatherbacks have increased in the last few days, likely indicating that...

Leatherback turtle freed from entanglement

October 31, 2015 The Center for Coastal Studies Marine Animal Entanglement Response team, with the US Coast Guard and Truro Harbor Master, disentangled a 4.5 foot long leatherback sea turtle today off Pamet Harbor, Cape Cod Bay. The turtle sustained relatively minor...