What to do if you find a marine mammal or sea turtle during your beach walk?

• Never approach a live seal or other marine mammal (seals will often beach themselves and their pups through tide cycles)
• Other marine mammals (whales, dolphins, porpoises) and sea turtles do not generally beach themselves in this area if they are healthy; sightings of these animals on beaches warrant reporting:

Cetacean, Seal, and Sea Turtle Reporting

Massachusetts:
Cape Cod - report stranded marine mammals to the Cape Cod Stranding Network Hotline at 508-743-9548; report sea turtles to Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary at 508-349-2615

All of MA - report stranded marine mammals and sea turtles to the New England Aquarium at 617-973-5247

Maine:
Report stranded marine mammalsto Marine Animal Lifeline at 207-851-6625

Rhode Island and Connecticut:
Report stranded marine mammals and sea turtles to the Mystic Aquarium at 203-536-9631

New York:
On Long Island, report live and dead seal, marine mammal, and sea turtle sightings to our collaborators at the Riverhead Foundation strandings hotline at 631-369-9829 or live, healthy animal reports at 631-369-9840 ext. 15

New Jersey:
Report stranded marine mammals to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center at 609-266-0538

For general information on marine mammal stranding centers in the northeast, contact:
NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center
1 Blackburn Drive
Gloucester, MA 01930-2298
Contact: Dana Hartley, 978-281-9328 dana.hartley"at"noaa.gov

Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Population and Environmental Health
Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine
Bernice Barbour Wildlife Medicine Building
200 Westboro Rd., North Grafton, MA 01536
Phone: 508-887-4789 Fax: 508-839-7946

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