by Cathrine Macort | Apr 6, 2023 | PRESS
Provincetown, MA – On Tuesday, April 4, the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Marine Animal Entanglement Response team (MAER) attempted to disentangle North Atlantic right whale #4545 in the waters east of Wellfleet, MA. The hours-long operation resulted in the...
by Cathrine Macort | Mar 4, 2021 | PRESS
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...
by Cathrine Macort | 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,...
by Cathrine Macort | Apr 17, 2020 | PRESS
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....
by Cathrine Macort | Jan 31, 2020 | PRESS
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...