Entangled right whale resighted; conditions complicate disentanglement response

Entangled right whale resighted; conditions complicate disentanglement response

January 31, 2020 The Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) right whale aerial survey team re-sighted an entangled right whale today, about 35 miles south of Nantucket. The whale, identified as #3466, was first seen entangled on December 21, 2019, a few miles away...

Lecture: Seasonal Seal Occupancy Patterns in SE Massachusetts

Wednesday March 1 at 6:30 pm Nantucket Atheneum 1 India Street, Nantucket Lisa Sette will present a illustrated lecture on seal occupancy patterns in southeastern Massachusetts, and will report on her current research into seal diet. Lisa is Seal Research Project...

Documentary Screening: The Hunt for Moby Dick

Join the Center for Coastal Studies and the Truro Historical Society for a screening of the BBC documentary The Hunt for Moby-Dick, written and presented by Philip Hoare, author of The Whale. Filmed over five years in Provincetown, Nantucket, New Bedford, Western...