The announcement comes after Greg Skomal, senior fisheries scientist at the Division of Marine Fisheries, said his research on white sharks’ “fine-scale behavior — specifically, predatory behavior,” would expand into other parts of the Atlantic Ocean off of Cape Cod this summer.

The last manatee spotted off the Cape, an 800-pound pregnant female named Washburn, was rehabilitated at Mystic Aquarium.

This animal has beached itself and looks a little thin,” said Erin Burke, the protected species program manager at the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. “The International Fund for Animal Welfare is hoping to do a preemptive rescue.