CCS MAER Team Makes Second Attempt to Disentangle Right Whale #4545

CCS MAER Team Makes Second Attempt to Disentangle Right Whale #4545

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...
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,...
First right whale calves of the season have arrived in Cape Cod Bay

First right whale calves of the season have arrived in Cape Cod Bay

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....
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...