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Credit: NOAA Fisheries. The Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program coordinates emergency responses to sick, injured, distressed, or dead seals, sea lions, dolphins, porpoises, and whales. The 1992 Amendments to the Marine Mammal Protection Act formalized this program and designated NOAA Fisheries' Office of Protected Resources as ...
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center continues to be on the front line as the first responders during the recent increase in whale strandings that began in December 2022. As a member of the Greater Atlantic Marine Mammal Stranding Network, we are the boots on the ground working together with our fellow network members to help find the answers.
In the last five years, we average 180 animals annually. In 2013, we saw our busiest year with 292 animals, with most being bottlenose dolphins from a mass die-off. In 2020, the Center had responded to 14 large whales, which is the most we’ve had in one year. In the MMSC’s first decade, from 1978 to 1988, the most common species the MMSC ...
The Marine Mammal Stranding Center (established in 1978) is a private non-profit organization located in Brigantine, New Jersey. The Stranding Center's main goal is to rescue, rehabilitate, and release stranded marine mammals and sea turtles. They are the only marine stranding center in New Jersey.
Apr 26, 2024 · National Marine Mammal Stranding Response Network. The U.S. Marine Mammal Stranding Response Network responds to live stranded, sick, injured, out of habitat, or entangled marine mammals, and investigates dead stranded marine mammals.
Our Educators will teach you how to assist stranded Diamondback terrapins and Horseshoe crabs, two abundant local species that frequently need a helping hand. Finally, learn more about MMSC's mission, and what to do if you spot a stranded marine mammal or sea turtle.
Our Top Priorities. NYMRC is focused on providing a sustainable response and rehabilitation effort for marine mammals and sea turtles stranding throughout New York while identifying and understanding stranding trends, human impacts and viruses that impact those animals and encouraging conservation and stewardship of the marine environmental ...
