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Two of the sites, encompassing nearly 254,000 acres, are off the Maine coast. The remaining six are located off Massachusetts.
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This summer, York and Cumberland Counties in Maine will update floodplain maps from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the first time in years. The maps show that hundreds of additional property owners may face flood risks.
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The first North Atlantic right whale calf of the season safely reached Cape Cod Bay with its mother this week. The news came the same day another new mother of the species was reported dead off Virginia, killed by “catastrophic injuries” from a boat collision, also known as a vessel strike. Her calf, born in December, has disappeared and is unlikely to survive.
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O’Brien theorized that the whale may have traveled from the West Coast through waters north of Canada and down the Maine coast.
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Fishermen have 90 days to show they’ve historically used the lease area and a third party administrator — with the help of fishing representatives — will decide how to divide up a $19.1 million pot through the Fisheries Compensatory Mitigation Program to Massachusetts fishermen.
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WHOI scientists have deployed new water-level sensors in Woods Hole and Chatham that will give towns better data on coastal flooding.
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The New England Aquarium (NEAQ) recently spotted 31 right whales across two groups in the Great South Channel, which is east of Nantucket and Cape Cod.
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Coastal communities are still struggling to recover from last month's back-to-back storms. The situation has left families and businesses facing complex questions as they try to rebuild generations-old infrastructure in a way that prepares for future storms.
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The whale, known as "5120," was found on an Edgartown beach with rope deeply embedded in her tail. Earlier this month, officials attributed her death to chronic entanglement wounds.
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Maine fisheries officials and lobstermen called the incident "unfortunate but rare." But scientists caution that the vast majority of right whale entanglements are undetected and the gear historically has not been recovered or identified.