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Harborside Chat: Searching for Causes of Marine Mammal Deaths

Harborside Chat: Searching for Causes of Marine Mammal Deaths

By Christopher South

Retired professor Ralph Boerner gives a presentation on whales as part of the Harborside Chat series at the Nature Center of Cape May, Feb.1.
Christopher South
Retired professor Ralph Boerner gives a presentation on whales as part of the Harborside Chat series at the Nature Center of Cape May, Feb.1.

CAPE MAY – One of the three biggest reasons for whale and other marine mammal deaths at the Jersey Shore is unknown, says Dr. Ralph Boerner, retired chairman of the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University.

Boerner, giving a Harborside Chat lecture at the Nature Center of Cape May on Feb. 1, told the audience that two of the top three reasons for whale deaths are vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear.

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Christopher South is a reporter for the Cape May County Herald.

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