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Marine Mammal Health & Stranding Response Program
“Why do marine mammals strand?” Marine mammal strandings may occur due to disease, parasite infestation, harmful algal blooms, injuries from ship strikes, fishery entanglements, pollution exposure, trauma, starvation, or other reasons. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Marine Mammal Health & Stranding Response Program plays a key role in preventing and treating marine mammal strandings […]
How do you help stranded marine animals?
It is the mission of the National Marine Life Center to rehabilitate stranded marine mammals and return them to the wild, and we would not be able to that without the help of the public! Stranded seal pups like Belmont and Barclay would not be in our facilities if they had not been reported to […]
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Happy Wednesday Everyone! For this week's #wishlistwednesday posting, we are asking for an urgently needed item: Clorox Bleach (specifically the regular bleach as seen in
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We're just days away from our second annual food truck festival, who's getting excited?
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Not to be outdone by the pups, but Badlands caught his live fish before ever actually getting in the pool. #sealSunday