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FROM: NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM - RIGHT WHALE RESEARCH

EWS Report #1 - 12/01/98 thru 12/07/98

The EWS surveys are in progress and things are going smoothly. The surf temperature at Jacksonville Beach has been sitting at 21-22C, a little warm for right whales. There have been sightings reported off of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina during the last couple of weeks. A sport fisherman reported a right whale approximately 25NM off of Jekyll Island, GA on 12/01. They're on the way but we've yet to see any right whales. Conditions for surveying have been nice on all but one day (12/02). We have seen lots of other creatures: ~1200 bottlenose dolphins, 267 loggerhead turtles, 22 leatherbacks, 20 kemp's ridleys, ~600 sharks, ~3300 cownose rays and 8 mola mola. Mike Williamson and I will be working to get the EWS/Whalenet site fine tuned during the next couple of weeks. If you have any suggestions, please let us know.
http://whale.wheelock.edu/whalenet-stuff/reports/
More later,
Chris Slay

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