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Confirmed North Atlantic right whales off Massachusetts and Rhode Island seen on survey flights or recorded by passive acoustic detectors, January-April 2021 with 730 sighting events and 183 acoustic detections. WhaleMap image via NOAA.
Endangered northern right whales that have been arriving earlier in spring and staying longer around Cape Cod have also expanded their presence south and west of Nantucket Shoals, into areas planned for large-scale development of offshore wind power, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Scientists from the NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center conducting surveillance flights spotted 57 fight whales March 30 off southeast New England, in and around wind energy areas that have been leased to developers by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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