The New England Aquarium Research Team were able to get out on August 9 and found over 25 right whales, two sei whales and one sperm whale. Our researchers were also out the same day to do some plankton tows, confirming that large quantities of copepods, the preferred food of right whales, are present in the Bay. Sei whales also eat copepods which makes sense why they are also here.
The sperm whale sighting is exciting since this is now the second year that they have been in the Bay after only one other sighting in the past 30 years before 2010.
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