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Whale Watching Trip on Saturday, March 26th with Captain John Whale Watching and Fishing Tours. NECWA interns Tammy and Nick joined Krill for what was the first whale watching trip of the season for Captain John Whale Watching and Fishing Tours ( www.captjohn.com ) out of Plymouth Harbor. NECWA would like to take a moment to thank Captain John Whale Watching and Fishing Tours for their continued support of our internship program for high school and college students in the New England area. Their support allows our interns access to the unique marine wildlife off New England. We hope you can support this company by joining them for a whale watch or fishing trip this season. Check out their website to learn more about trips, times and schedules. Go to www.captjohn.com to learn more. We were treated to bright sunny skies and beautiful view of Plymouth Harbor as we prepared to leave the dock. Excitement was in the air as this was our first trip offshore after being land-locked all

Today, Krill met with Tammy Kelley and her First Grade class at the Center School in Mattaopoisett. Tammy has been teaching her students about whales and other marine wildlife and invited Krill to come in and speak to her students. Krill was amazed at how much these young learners knew about whales and the other marine wildlife found off Cape Cod. Not only were Tammy's students knowledgable about marine wildlife, but they were curious about whales and excited about learning more. Tammy's students enjoyed handling all the neat marine wildlife artifacts that Krill brought to their classroom including humpback baleen, a large whale vertebrae and preserved samples of what whales and other marine wildlife eat when in our waters. The students also enjoyed watching the PPT presentation that Krill put together for this very special day, which also turned out to be Saint Patrick's Day. Tammy's students had fun using the whale tail props they made when singing the "Salt,

Ocean Sunfish Presentation at the 16th Annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference. Today Tammy Silva and Krill Carson presented NECWA's findings on ocean sunfish strandings on Cape Cod beaches from 2008 - 2010 at the 16th Annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference. This conference is sponsored by Mass Audubon at Wellfleet Bay and is one of the nicest community-based conferences held in the state. Each March, Mass Audubon puts together a wide variety of presentations that focus on the geology, history and biology of Cape Cod. And each year the conference gets better and better with more exciting talks and posters presented by scientists, researchers, students and professionals within the community. Thanks to Tammy Silva for all her work on this presentation. She did an amazing job of putting the presentation together and presenting the findings at this conference. Thanks also to Nick Schomburg, Patty Grace and Caitlyn Dionne for their help at the conference in terms of manning NEC