Harbour Porpoise Working Group Meetings

Here you will find the meeting documents of past and upcoming meetings of the NAMMCO Harbour Porpoise Working Group. Some of these documents require a password for access. Final reports are uploaded in the library.

2019

19-22 March 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Harbour Porpoise Working Group (HPWG) will meet at the Faroes Representation in Copenhagen from 19-22 March 2019 under the Chairmanship of Bjarni Mikkelsen (FO). The meeting is open to members of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee and invited experts.

The HPWG will: a) Conduct an assessment of the sustainability of the harvest of harbour porpoise in West Greenland; b) Review assessments performed in other areas by the IMR/NAMMCO Harbour Porpoise Workshop in 2018; c) Identify knowledge gaps and needs for further research; d) Assess impacts from non-hunting related anthropogenic stresses (pollution, climate change, noise etc).