28 March 2024 With fewer phone calls coming into Marine Mammal Emergencies (UMM) in winter than during the high season, it’s the perfect time for training! Last January, UMM technician Méduline Chailloux left…
30 November 2023 On Wednesday, October 25, a humpback whale carcass washed up in Saint-Maxime-du-Mont-Louis in the Gaspé Peninsula. It was a male between three and five years old and was eventually identified.…
23 November 2023 On November 6, flying above the gulf fifteen kilometres from the village of Baie-Johan-Beetz, a helicopter pilot notices a greyish mass lying in the shallow waters near the edge of…
15 June 2023 On May 23 and 24, several members of the team from the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network (QMMERN) and Parks Canada (Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park) received training on satellite…
11 May 2023 While some communities are eagerly waiting for the ice to break up on the local river or for the tulips to bloom, in the Haute-Côte-Nord region, it’s the return of…
30 March 2023 Over the past year, 12 beluga carcasses were discovered adrift or on the shores of the St. Lawrence by the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network (QMMERN). By way of…
16 February 2023 When a marine mammal carcass is found stranded or adrift in the waters of the St. Lawrence, the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network (QMMERN) has a clear and precise…
30 November 2022 Last September, the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network received a report of an Atlantic white-sided dolphin carcass near Rimouski. A necropsy performed on the carcass at Université de Montréal’s…
4 August 2022 Between Tadoussac and Kegaska, Route 138 hugs the coast of Quebec’s Côte-Nord region for over 850 kilometres. Dotted with magnificent viewpoints for observing marine mammals, the road is even nicknamed…
21 July 2022 On the evening of June 20, 2022, the Quebec Marine Mammal Emergency Response Network (QMMERN) gets wind that a harbour porpoise carcass has been found stranded near Godbout. Being still…
