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...
On Monday, January 6, the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) aerial surveillance team spotted two endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, the first right whale sightings in the bay in 2020. The unique markings on the whales’ bodies enabled the CCS team...
August 16, 2019 The Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale yesterday afternoon off Chatham, MA. A charter vessel discovered the whale early yesterday morning; they reported it to the CCS...
August 8, 2019 A group of scientists from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) are working with commercial fishermen to understand bycatch and depredation in gillnet fishing gear. Fishery bycatch – the...
On Thursday, April 12 the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) in Provincetown responded to reports of an entangled right whale on Stellwagen Bank. The right whale, identified as #1142 (Kleenex), is a mature female....
