Aerial observers from the Center for Coastal Studies spotted a North Atlantic right whale mother with her calf just north of Marshfield yesterday. This is the first such sighting of a right whale calf in Massachusetts waters in the 2024 season. The right whale mother...
March 4, 2021 Yesterday the aerial surveillance team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Right Whale Ecology Program documented a North Atlantic right whale mother/calf pair in Cape Cod Bay, the first of the 2021 season. Right whale #3520, Millipede, with her...
April 16, 2020 Earlier this week researchers from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Right Whale Ecology Program documented two North Atlantic right whale mother/calf pairs in Cape Cod Bay, bringing the total number of calves seen in the Bay this spring to three....
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...
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....
