CCS Team Disentangles Anchored Humpback Whale off Boston, MA

CCS Team Disentangles Anchored Humpback Whale off Boston, MA

June 10, 2021 Yesterday the Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) disentangled a humpback whale in the waters east of Boston. The whale was identified by the CCS Humpback Whale Studies team as a mature female named...
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,...
IUCN moves North Atlantic right whale to “Critically Endangered” list

IUCN moves North Atlantic right whale to “Critically Endangered” list

July 10, 2020 Statement by Dr Charles “Stormy” Mayo Director, CCS Right Whale Ecology Program With the recent listing by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) of the North Atlantic right whale as Critically Endangered on the Red List of...
Humpback whale disentangled by CCS MAER team for the second time

Humpback whale disentangled by CCS MAER team for the second time

June 4, 2020 Staff from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team disentangled a humpback whale 15 miles east of Cape Cod yesterday. This is the second time the young whale, identified as the 2015 calf of Jabiru, has been...
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...