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Sammy Beynor finding a cold-stunned sea turtle at Scorton Creek, Sandwich, MA on December 30, 2015. |

NECWA News Blog - The New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance (NECWA) is an all volunteer non-profit organization based in southeastern MA. Our focus is to better understand and protect coastal marine wildlife, including whales, seabird, seals, basking sharks and ocean sunfish. Contact us at contact@necwa.org.
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Boston Globe Article about our GoFundMe Campaign to bring Salt to kids all over New England.
The Boston Globe recently posted in their online section a great article about NECWA's GoFundMe campaign to purchase a commercially-made inflatable model of Salt, the most famous humpback whales.
To read the entire article, click HERE.
Help NECWA reach their goal by contributing to this exciting and special fundraising campaign. Thank you for your kindness and generosity!
Best, Krill
President and Marine Biologist
NECWA
To read the entire article, click HERE.
Help NECWA reach their goal by contributing to this exciting and special fundraising campaign. Thank you for your kindness and generosity!
Best, Krill
President and Marine Biologist
NECWA
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Happy Holidays from all of us at NECWA
We wish you and your loved ones a very happy and safe holiday season.
Thank you for your continued support over the years.
May 2016 bring you peace, happiness, and joy!
11th Ocean Sunfish carcass of the 2015 season.
Our 11th ocean sunfish carcass of the 2015 season stranded yesterday on First Encounter Beach in Eastham, MA. Thanks to Allie, her dad Ken, her mom and cute dog, who reported this carcass to NECWA yesterday morning.
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Meg, Allie (her dog), and Kayla. |
Allie was on break from college and was spending time on the Cape with her family. Little did she know that Krill would put her to work and give her a knife to help with the necropsy. There is no better way to get experience than by doing and how often do you get a chance to do something like this!
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Aluminum tripod donated by Dale and Annette Eldridge. |
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Kayla attaching the chain fall. |
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Tripod ready for action. |
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Krill and Kayla putting the straps under the carcass. |
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Lifting the carcass. |
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Final product! Getting an accurate weight for the carcass. |
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An average sized fish - 462 pounds. |
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Meg collecting data. |
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Kayla measuring the dorsal fin. |
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Kayla and Krill examining the pharyngeal gill slits. |
Friday, December 18, 2015
Support NECWA through AmazonSmile
Support NECWA this holiday season by choosing the New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance as the organization you support on your AmazonSmile account.
Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible AmazonSmile purchases to NECWA. This isn't a lot, but it does add up and we greatly appreciate any level of support.
Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of eligible AmazonSmile purchases to NECWA. This isn't a lot, but it does add up and we greatly appreciate any level of support.
Thank you for your support.
Happy Holidays to one and all!
Click below for NECWA's AmazonSmile account.
Click below for NECWA's AmazonSmile account.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Christmas Bazaar at St. Martha's and Mary's in Lakeville
On Saturday, December 6th, NECWA was part of the annual Christmas Bizaar at St. Martha's and Mary's in Lakeville. We had a great time chatting-up the work we do with coastal marine wildlife and NECWA offered a free activity for any of the kids who were interested.
Our Christmas holiday activity was "make your own whale ornament" where kids could choose a whale photo taken offshore and use it to make an ornament that they could hang on their tree. We love the creativity of these young folk.
A big "thank you" to our staff members Krill, Mary, and our intern Alex, for doing such a great job. We hope to return to this event next season for we all enjoyed the festivities. We met many old friends at the bazaar as well as many
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Alex helping out at our whale ornament activity. |
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Marine wildlife displays at the Christmas bazaar. |
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