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The sighting happened about four miles off the coast of Wellfleet, in Cape Cod Bay, in about 60 feet of water at the time, delighting a vacationing family fishing for lobster.
Endangered right whales are most active in Cape Cod Bay 18 days later than before.
No dead right whales have been spotted. Fifteen calves were born — the second-largest number since 2015. And observers were impressed by the saga of one whale, a mother who, injured and entangled in fishing gear, managed to escort her calf a thousand miles up the coast
The dolphins were released from Herring Cove Beach in Provincetown after about seven hours of work. Learn more at Boston.com.
Local residents demanded a safer decommissioning of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station this week at a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission meeting in Plymouth. The agency hosted the meeting — one of several around the country — to explain new rules proposed for the decommissioning of nuclear power plants. Leslie Danielson of Plymouth was one of many residents to speak against the possibility of Pilgrim owner Holtec releasing radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay.