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Cape Cod sharks: At least 1 great white has already made it to the Massachusetts coast
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If nice white sharks manage a race to the Cape forward of summer time, an almost 11-foot sub-adult feminine is approach forward of the pack.
The greater than 600-pound nice white named Andromache has rapidly migrated north to her summer time dwelling. She was lately detected off of Martha’s Winery, based on the OCEARCH tracker — which exhibits her as the one OCEARCH tagged shark alongside the Massachusetts coast.
Final week, it appeared that the monstrous 1,000-pound, 12-footer grownup male named Ironbound could be the primary OCEARCH shark to achieve the Cape, however then Andromache popped up on the western fringe of the Winery.
“She’s up there fairly early,” OCEARCH Chief Scientist Bob Hueter informed the Herald this week. “She’s positively a Cape Cod-oriented white shark, and needs to be there from now by means of the summer time.
“She’s a reasonably good pinger, and has given us quite a lot of places throughout Nantucket in previous years,” Hueter added.
All through final Might, there have been 520 detections of tagged Atlantic White Shark Conservancy white sharks that swam by AWSC receivers, based on AWSC’s White Shark Logbook. The 520 Might detections compares to final yr’s peak month of 57,458 detections in August.
Andromache was tagged off Nantucket throughout OCEARCH’s Expedition Massachusetts 2020. She has since traveled practically 10,000 miles alongside the japanese seaboard. She spends a lot of the summer time round Nantucket and Chatham’s Monomoy Nationwide Wildlife Refuge — the place nice white sharks seek for seals.
Andromache is between 18 and 20 years outdated, which is the cusp of changing into a sexually mature shark within the Atlantic Ocean.
“This can be thrilling to observe her transition to sexual maturity within the subsequent yr or two,” Hueter mentioned. “Hopefully we’ll be capable to decide up the offshore actions that pregnant females often do.”
Andromache had been off of the Carolinas earlier than rapidly taking pictures up the coast.
The OCEARCH shark tracker exhibits nice whites all alongside the japanese seaboard, together with a “straggler” nonetheless within the Gulf of Mexico, Hueter mentioned. Maple — an almost 12-foot, greater than 1,200-pound sub-adult feminine — was lately detected off of Tampa Bay. She was tagged off of Nova Scotia final September.
“She’s type of straggling in comparison with the remaining,” Hueter mentioned. “It simply exhibits you the animals don’t huddle up in an space and transfer collectively in massive teams.
“White sharks get fairly unfold out,” he added. “It’s fascinating to see how these people range. They preserve us on our toes.”
To see the place some tagged sharks are within the ocean, go to the OCEARCH International Shark Tracker at ocearch.org/tracker, or obtain the OCEARCH Shark Tracker app.
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Massachusetts housing crisis takes center stage in Revere apartment condemnation
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The Massachusetts housing crisis is taking center stage in Revere as roughly 40 families will soon have to move out of a 13-story, oceanside apartment tower that city officials say is “moldy” and “rat-infested.”
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EEE map for Massachusetts shows towns at highest risk level for mosquito-borne virus
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BOSTON – Heading into Labor Day weekend, multiple towns in Massachusetts are facing critical or high risk levels of the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE. A map published by the state’s Department of Public Health shows the EEE threat for every community in the state.
EEE cases in Massachusetts
Massachusetts on Thursday reported its second human case of EEE in a woman in her 30s. She contracted the virus in Plymouth County, before the area was aerial sprayed for mosquitos. A EEE case in a horse was also confirmed there.
Many towns around Plymouth have a EEE risk level of moderate or high, according to the map. And some towns in southern Worcester County are at a critically high risk of EEE because a man in his 80s was infected with EEE there.
Earlier this week, 41-year-old Steven Perry from Hampstead, New Hampshire – not far from the Massachusetts border – died from EEE. His family said he had no underlying health conditions but developed severe central nervous system disease and died days later.
EEE risk level in Massachusetts towns
As of Friday afternoon, these were the Massachusetts communities listed as having a moderate, high or critical EEE risk level.
Critical: Douglas, Oxford, Sutton, Webster
High: Carver, Dudley, Middleboro, Northbridge, Plymouth, Uxbridge
Moderate: Acushnet, Amesbury, Auburn, Berkley, Bridgewater, Charlton, Dartmouth, Fairhaven, Freetown, Grafton, Groveland, Halifax, Haverhill, Hopedale, Hudson, Kingston, Lakeville, Leicester, Mariion, Marlboro, Mattapoisett, Maynard, Mendon, Merrimac, Millbury, Milford, Millville, New Bedford, Newburyport, North Reading, Plympton, Raynham, Rochester, Salisbury, Southbridge, Sudbury, Taunton, Upton, West Newbury, Wareham, Westport
What are the symptoms of EEE?
EEE is a rare disease, but about 30% of those who get infected die, according to the CDC. Most people don’t show symptoms, but those that do can have fever or brain swelling.
Symptoms can include headache, vomiting, diarrhea, seizures, behavioral changes and drowsiness.
To avoid mosquito bites, experts recommend using insect repellent, wearing long sleeves, staying indoors at dusk and dawn when mosquitoes are active, and draining standing water.
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