Cape Cod Bay Ocean Sanctuary and Monitoring Program

Cape Cod Bay is ecologically rich with a complex and diverse array of coastal and marine habitats. Beaches, wetlands and offshore water provide important habitats for plant and animal communities that include commercially valuable species of finfish and shellfish as well as endangered marine mammals and birds. From our field station in Provincetown, we can easily voyage into the greater Gulf of Maine to work on issues of habitat protection, ecosystem management, marine mammal and marine wildlife conservation. We fly aerial surveys over Cape Cod Bay; survey the humpback feeding grounds of Jeffreys Ledge off New Hampshire and Stellwagen Bank off Massachusetts; huddle over countless tables with shipping companies, municipal leaders, fishermen, and government officials to come up with new ways of solving old problems. Waterbody or Watershed Names: CAPE COD BAY