Dolphin Strandings On Cape Cod At An All-Time High, Experts Believe It Has To Do With Food

CBS Boston

November 21, 2024

CAPE COD - The waters off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts are teeming with life, especially dolphins. More than ever, these animals are getting stranded on the shore, with the number spiking this year.

"We typically get about 68 live dolphins per year, currently, as I'm sitting here today, we have had 342," said Brian Sharp with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).

Sharp says the southeast corner of Cape Cod Bay has more dolphin strandings than anywhere on the planet. IFAW and its volunteers work to rescue these animals, and sometimes that means driving them around in a mobile dolphin unit. It's a large shipping truck with padding on the inside. Typically, they release the dolphins off the coast of Provincetown because it has easy access to deeper water, and the IFAW team can get their equipment to the shore. The Wellfleet Fire Department was called to help during one incident. Luke Fancy and his crew used their equipment to trickle water over the animals.

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