Sep 26, 2022 | PRESS
The Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team at the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) freed a young humpback whale Sunday outside Boston Harbor. The whale was badly entangled in fishing gear but is now in a better position for recovery. Recreational fishermen...
Jun 10, 2021 | PRESS
June 10, 2021 Yesterday the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale in the waters east of Boston. The whale was identified by the CCS Humpback Whale Studies team as a mature female named...
Oct 31, 2020 | PRESS
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,...
Jul 31, 2020 | PRESS
On Monday, July 27, the Center for Coastal Studies Marine Animal Entanglement Response hotline (CCS MAER) received notification from the US Coast Guard of a whale in distress about ten miles east of the entrance to the harbor of New York City. The MAER team then spoke...
Jul 11, 2020 | PRESS
July 10, 2020 Statement by Dr Charles “Stormy” Mayo Director, CCS Right Whale Ecology Program With the recent listing by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) of the North Atlantic right whale as Critically Endangered on the Red List of...
