NEBShark and NEOSunfish
Brochure
Click Here to view or print our Brochure.
Coloring Pages
Click Here to view or print our Basking Shark and Ocean Sunfish Coloring Page.Click Here to view or print our Marine Debris Coloring Page.
Mail In Sighting Cards
Click Here to view or download a PDF file of our mail-in Sighting Card. Fill out this card and mail to NEBShark.
You can use this card to report your sightings of either ocean sunfish or basking sharks seen offshore.
Stranding Key Tag
Send NECWA $1 and we will mail you our Stranding Key Tag. This tag goes on your key ring and is a great way to keep important stranding numbers close at hand. One side of the tag has NECWA's stranding number to call if you see a stranded live or dead ocean sunfish. The other side of the tag has Mass Audubon at Wellfleet Bay's stranding number to call if find a live or dead stranded sea turtle.
For each key tag needed, send $1 to
NECWA (New England Coastal Wildlife Alliance)
11 Clarence Soule Drive
Middleboro MA 02346
Marine Wildlife Contact Numbers
Report In the Massachusetts Area:
Fish
- Basking Shark (live or dead/seen offshore) - report online at www.NEBShark.org or call 508-566-0009
- Basking Shark (live or dead/on a beach) - call NEBShark at 508-566-0009
- Ocean Sunfish (live or dead/seen offshore) - report online at www.NEBShark.org or call 508-566-0009
- Ocean Sunfish (live or dead/on a beach) - call NEOSunfish at 508-566-0009
Sea Turtle
- Sea Turtle in MA (live or dead/seen offshore) - report online at www.seaturtlesightings.org
- Sea Turtle in MA (live or dead/on a beach) - call Mass Audubon at Wellfleet Bay at 508-349-2615 ext.104
Marine Bird
- Seabird or Seaduck (dead/on a beach) SEANET at Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine via
Dr. Julie Ellis at julie.ellis@tufts.edu or 508-887-4933 - Seabird or Seaduck (live/on a beach) Cape Wildlife Center in Barnstable MA at 508-362-0111
- Seabird or Seaduck (live/on a beach) WildCare Cape Cod 508-240-2255
North Atlantic Right Whale
- Right Whale (live/offshore) NOAA Northeast Marine Animal Reporting Hotline 1-866-755-6622 (NOAA)
Entangled Marine Animal
- Any Entangled Marine Animal (live or dead/offshore) Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies - Hotline 1-800-900-3622
- NMFS Stranding and Disentanglement Holine 1-866-755-6622 (NOAA)
- US Coast Guard
Seal, Whale, Dolphin or Porpoise (live or dead, on the beach only)
- NMFS Stranding and Disentanglement Holine 866-755-6622 (NOAA)
- IFAW Marine Mammal Rescue and Research 508-743-9548
- New England Aquarium Stranding Program 617-973-5247
Additional contact information for organizations on the Atlantic coast can be found on the NOAA Fisheries Service website.
Marine Mammal and Set Turtle Stranding and Disentanglement program can be obtained from NOAA Fisheries website.
