NECWA News Blog

April 21, 2012 - Krill, Patty and Carly Today Krill, Patty and Carly had a great time manning two educational tables as well as two hands-on activities at the Cape Cod Canal Cleanup and Earth Day Fest. This Festival was organized by Americorp. Carly helping out with the educational activities.  The children and adults who visited out table had fun looking and picking up all our whale and shark artifacts. And many people were surprised to learn just how light ocean sunfish bones really are. Carly at the educational display table. Big thanks to Carly, our new intern this season, for a wonderful job. Carly is an undergraduate student at Bridgewater State University and is very interested in Marine Biology. Carly was a natural with the children and really got involved in all aspects of the event.  Too much to write about so just enjoy the photos! We hope you have a great Earth Day weekend and do something (big or small) to honor o

Whale Watching with Captain John Whale Watching and Fishing Tours - Krill We headed offshore with Captain John Boats out of Plymouth MA. We would like to thank Captain John for collaborating with NECWA on an internship program. Captain John provides free tickets for interns each day. This allows us to get offshore high school and college students who are interested in marine biology. What an amazing experience for our interns. Please join Captain John Boats offshore this season as as way of supporting this business and thanking them for helping NECWA with this internship program. Go to their website by clicking HERE . We headed offshore with high hopes of seeing whales and dolphins offshore and we were not disappointed. As we headed toward the southwest corner of Stellwagen Bank, we saw splashing and blows in the distance. To our delight, we realized that we had large baleen whales and dolphins feeding together at the surface. Also in this area were large numbers of Northern gannet