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New Buoys Listen For Critically Endangered Right Whale Sounds Off Massachusetts Coast
Data shows the Cape Cod Bay buoy has detected a right whale every day since Feb. 23. About 370 right whales are left in the world.
Updated on: March 26, 2025
Researchers are listening for critically endangered North Atlantic right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new buoys in the water.
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The high-tech buoys were deployed last month in Cape Cod Bay and off Cape Ann thanks to a partnership between the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. They are part of a larger East Coast network of buoys that the state says will "listen for, detect, classify, and report vocalizations of large whales in near real-time."
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A map of the new buoy locations that are listening for right whales/Massachusetts Fish and Game/CS Boston
"Within a few hours of the buoys being in the water, they were already picking up detections, including vocalizations of right whales in Cape Cod Bay," said Erin Burke, the protected species program manager with Marine Fisheries.
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