Officials from the Massachusetts Department of Fish & Game (DFG) are urging boaters to be on the lookout for North Atlantic right whales—a critically endangered species—which have begun to congregate and feed in large numbers in Western Cape Cod...

Right whales have returned to Cape Cod Bay, and April is the best time to see them. Researchers have identified about 60 individuals—“a spot-on number for this time of year,” according to the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, which...

Wicked Local Provincetown: Water temperatures are rising, plankton are less predictable, right whales are arriving earlier and feeding less. These are some of the trends documented recently in Cape Cod Bay by the right whale habitat studies team at...

CapeCodOnline: A common dolphin found alive and stranded on a Cape Cod Bay beach near Seaway Road was euthanized Wednesday afternoon , after rescuers determined the animal was suffering and a poor candidate for release. “It’s never...

Laura Ludwig of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies and the Project Manager for the Fishing for Energy Project currently underway off Cape Cod, reports on the efforts to remove derelict fishing gear from Cape Cod Bay. “Yesterday [March...

The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) has received a grant from the Fishing For Energy program to assess and recover derelict, lost or abandoned fishing gear from the seabed in Provincetown and Wellfleet Harbors. The project will begin...

CapeCodOnline: The number of marine mammals reported as stranded in January along the Cape Cod Bay shoreline is less than a tenth the count from the same time last year, according to International Fund for Animal Welfare Stranding Coordinator...

CapeCodOnline: Researchers have completed a 5-year monitoring program for Cape Cod Bay that shows ongoing changes to the bay’s ecosystem, many caused by human activities. The information gathered during the program, however, is only the start of a long-term...

The Marine Animal Entanglement Response (MAER) team at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies (PCCS) recently disentangled a young humpback whale in waters just outside Cape Cod Bay. It was the 11th whale rescued by the team in 2012,...

Herald News: A local man and his brother are being hailed as heroes after rescuing 2 capsized boaters from the frigid waters of Cape Cod Bay. Richard Greenwald and his brother, Tommy Menendez, were fishing about a mile off...