Fishing Gear Recovery Project Resumes in Cape Cod Bay

Fishing Gear Recovery Project Resumes in Cape Cod Bay

March 23, 2021 The Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) begins field work this week to locate, remove, document, and properly dispose of lost, abandoned or discarded fishing gear in Cape Cod Bay. Removal and Interception of Derelict Fishing Gear from Cape Cod Bay Right...
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,...
IUCN moves North Atlantic right whale to “Critically Endangered” list

IUCN moves North Atlantic right whale to “Critically Endangered” list

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...
Humpback whale disentangled by CCS MAER team for the second time

Humpback whale disentangled by CCS MAER team for the second time

June 4, 2020 Staff from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team disentangled a humpback whale 15 miles east of Cape Cod yesterday. This is the second time the young whale, identified as the 2015 calf of Jabiru, has been...