TRURO – Scientists from the Center for Coastal Studies’ aerial survey team recorded a previously unseen North Atlantic right whale mother/calf pair off Truro on Wednesday.
“This is incredibly exciting” said Charles “Stormy” Mayo, PhD, Director of the Center’s Right Whale Ecology program. “Our colleagues in the southeast US saw only three new right whale calves this season, so for us to identify a fourth new addition to this critically endangered population is great news.”
Scientists estimate that there are only 524 North Atlantic right whales left in the world.
Over the weekend, 112 of those whales were sighted in Cape Cod Bay.
Members of the public are reminded that it is illegal for watercraft or aircraft of any kind to approach within 500 yards (1500 feet) of a North Atlantic right whale without a Federal Research Permit.
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