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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><b style><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Sharing Our Shores: Seals of
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">2 pm on Wednesday, <span style> </span>January 30 at
the Unitarian Universalist Meeting House, 819 Main Street, Chatham. </font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Lisa Sette, manager of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies Seal
Research project and a member of the Center’s Marine Animal Entanglement
Response team, will discuss her recent research on gray seals. Lisa has
developed <span style> </span>a photo-identification catalog
and database of individual gray seals from Cape Cod; these data are being used
to understand seasonal fidelity to local haul outs as well as long distance
movements of the seals throughout the year.<span style>
</span>Lisa also works with local commercial and recreational fishermen and the
Center’s Marine Fisheries Research program in a collaborative effort <span style> </span>to assess the impact of interactions between
seals and fisheries.</font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">Please note:<span style> </span>If Lisa has to
respond to a marine animal entanglement on January 30, the talk will be postponed
until <span style> </span>January 31, same time & place.
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</font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">For details please call
508-487-3622 x 104 or email <a href="mailto:ccs@coastalstudies.org">ccs@coastalstudies.org</a></font></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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