"AUKATHON"
STELLWAGEN
ALIVE!
Three-Day Kayak Paddle
Successfully Completed.
Effort Raises Awareness
of the Stellwagen
Bank Sanctuary
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Sanctuary
Advisory Council Recruitment
SBNMS will be seeking applicants for the newly vacant Conservation (Member) and the At-large (Alternate) seats. Click here for recruitment documents. |
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Condition Report - A Condition
Report that rates the status of Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary resources
has been released by the National Marine
Sanctuary Program. Click
here for press release.
Click
here for the full text of the Condition
Report.
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Marine Art Contest Winners
Click here to see winners and honorable mentions from this years contest. |
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“Megapclicks”
— a series of clicks and buzzes from
humpback whales apparently associated
with nighttime feeding behaviors —
have been recorded in and around the sanctuary.
The study is the first to document baleen
whales producing this type of sound, normally
associated with toothed whales and echolocation.
Click
here for a press release about this
research project. Click
here to hear a recording of the "megapclicks."
Click
here for a visualization of a "megapclicks"
feeding session.
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David
Wiley received the 2007 Human Hero
Award from the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(MSPCA). The award was presented on 11 October
at a ceremony at the Kennedy Library, Boston
MA. Approximately 500 people were in attendance.
The award was for his efforts to reduce
the serious injury or mortality to endangered
whales through movement
of the Boston shipping lanes that pass
through the sanctuary. |
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The
Stellwagen Bank and Marine Mammal Sanctuary
of the Dominican Republic sign sister sanctuary
agreement. Click here for press release |
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News
Updated
August 18, 2008
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Stellwagen
Bank, the birthplace of whale watching on the
east coast attracts a variety of marine mammals
and thousands of human visitors. Find out more
about watching whales in the sanctuary. Stellwagen
Bank was named one of the world's Top 10 Whale
Watching Sites according to USA Today (May 24,
2007). The photo accompanying the article was
of a breaching humpback whale in the Stellwagen
Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Visit our 
