Record number of right whales in Cape (Cod) waters

[jpak]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20110421record_number_of_right_whales_in_cape_waters/srvc=home&position=recent

Record numbers of right whales have been seen in Cape Cod Bay and adjacent waters this week, including sightings from some Truro beaches and the beaches at Herring Cove and Race Point in Provincetown.

The Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies reported today that the Right Whale Conservation Program run jointly by Cape group and the state Division of Marine Fisheries had documented 201 individual right whales in Cape Cod waters over the past week. More than 100 right whales were seen today during on seven-hour research flight.

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[damntexdem]

1. So a right whale is not the wrong whale for Cape Cod?

;-)

[Tesha]

2. That's why they're named that.

They were the "right whale" for the New Bedford and
Nantuckett whaling men to catch back in the old days.

Tesha