Scientific Committee meetings
Here you will find the meeting documents of past and upcoming meetings of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee. Some of these documents require a password for access.
Final reports of each meeting are uploaded in the library.
21-25 January 2025, , Tromsø, Norway
01 – Draft Agenda
02 – Draft List of Participants
03 – Draft List of Documents
Working and For Information Documents (password protected)
22-26 January 2024, Marine & Freshwater Research Institute, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland
01 – Draft Agenda (revised January 19)
02 – Draft List of Participants
Working and For Information Documents (password protected)
23-26 January 2023, Greenland Representation, Copenhagen
01 – Draft Agenda (January 18)
02 – Draft List of Participants (January 16)
24-28 January 2022, Online
01 – Draft Agenda
02 – Draft List of Participants (Updated 12.12.2021)
Working and For Information Documents (password protected)
25-29 January 2021, Online
01 – Draft Agenda
02 – Draft List of Participants (Updated: 20/01/2021)
03 – Draft List of Documents (Updated: 25/01/2021)
Working and For Information Documents (password protected) (Updated: 25/01/2021)
29 October-1 November 2019, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands (last updated 31.10.2019)
More information and documents to come…
01 – Draft Agenda
02 – Draft List of Participants
03 – Draft List of Documents (see below)
Working and For Information Documents (password protected)
Draft List of Documents
Working Documents
| Doc. No. | Title | Agenda item |
|---|---|---|
| SC/26/01a | Draft Agenda | 2 |
| SC/26/01b | Draft Agenda Annotated | 2 |
| SC/26/02 | Draft List of Participants | 1 |
| SC/26/03 | Draft List of Documents | 4 |
| SC/26/NPR-FO | National Progress Report 2018 – Faroe Islands | 4.1 |
| SC/26/NPR-GL | National Progress Report 2018 – Greenland | 4.1 |
| SC/26/NPR-IS | National Progress Report 2018 – Iceland | 4.1 |
| SC/26/NPR-NO | National Progress Report 2018 – Norway | 4.1 |
| SC/26/NPR-JP | National Progress Report 2018 – Japan | 4.1 |
| SC/26/NPR-RU | National Progress Report 2018 – Russian Federation | 4.1 |
| SC/26/MAKIVIK | Progress Report 2018 – Makivik | 4.1 |
| SC/26/04 | Active Requests to SC from Council | Several |
| SC/26/05 | Table Abundance & Trends | 5.2 |
| SC/26/06 | Development of management advice in NAMMCO | 5.7 |
| SC/26/07 | Performance Review Recommendations for SC (including context for recommendations and letter on followup process | 5.8 |
| SC/26/08 | Summary of Performance Review Requests for SC | 5.8 |
| SC/26/09 | Report of the Harbour Porpoise Working Group | 4.2, 9.11.4 |
| SC/26/10 | Report of the Joint ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp & Hooded Seals | 4.2, 8.1.2, 8.2.2 |
| SC/26/11 | Report of the Adhoc Working Group on Narwhal in East Greenland | 4.2, 9.5.2 |
| SC/26/12 | Report of the Abundance Estimates Working Group | 4.2, 9.0 |
| SC/26/13 | Report of the Harbour Porpoise Workshop | 9.11.3 |
| SC/26/14 | Populations, Stocks, and Management Units | 5.2 |
| SC/26/15 | IWC: Small Cetaceans Abundance Estimates Tables | 6.1 |
| SC/26/16 | IWC: North Atlantic Abundance Estimates Table | 6.1 |
| SC/26/17 | IWC: Notes on Abundance Estimates Table | 6.1 |
| SC/26/18 | FAO Expert Meeting to Develop Technical Guidelines to Reduce Bycatch | 6.6, 7.1.2 |
| SC/26/19 | Note on OSPAR, NACES, and MPA | 6.8 |
| SC/26/20 | Status Management Areas | 5.2.2 |
| SC/26/21 | Scientific Committee Accounts and Budget for Scientific Committee Meeting | 13 |
For Information Documents
| Doc. No. | Title | Agenda item |
|---|---|---|
| SC/26/FI01 | Report of SC 25 (2018) | Several |
| SC/26/FI02 | Annual Report 2018 | Several |
| SC/26/FI03 | NAMMCO 27 Report of Council | Several |
| SC/26/FI04 | NAMMCO 27 Report of Management Committees (MCJ + MCC + MCSW) | Several |
| SC/26/FI05 | Moore, S.E., Haug, T. Vikingsson, G.A. and Stenson, G.B. (2019). Baleen whale ecology in arctic and subarctic seas in an era of rapid habitat alteration. Progress in Oceanography 176: 102118 | 7.3 |
| SC/26/FI06 | Kovacs, K.M., Krafft, B.A., Lydersen, C. (2019) Bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus) birth mass and pup growth in periods with contrasting ice conditions in Svalbard, Norway. Marine Mammal Science. 1-9 | 8.6 |
| SC/26/FI07 | Hamilton C.D., Vacquie´-Garcia J., Kovacs, K.M., Ims R.A., Kohler J., Lydersen C. (2019). Contrasting changes in space use induced by climate change in two Arctic marine mammal species. Biology Letters. 15: 20180834. | 8.3, 9.4 |
| SC/26/FI08 | Hamilton, C. D., Kovacs, K. M., & Lydersen, C. (2019). Sympatric seals use different habitats in an Arctic glacial fjord. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 615, 205-220 | 8.3, 8.6 |
| SC/26/FI09 | Hamilton, C. D., Lydersen, C., Fedak, M. A., Freitas, C., Hindell, M. A., & Kovacs, K. M. (2019). Behavioural ontogeny of bearded seals Erignathus barbatus through the first year of life. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 627, 179-194 | 8.6 |
| SC/26/FI10 | Hamilton, C. D., Kovacs, K. M., & Lydersen, C. (2018). Individual variability in diving, movement and activity patterns of adult bearded seals in Svalbard, Norway. Scientific reports, 8(1), 16988 | 8.6 |
| SC/26/FI11 | Ahonen, H., Stafford, K. M., Lydersen, C., de Steur, L., & Kovacs, K. M. (2019). A multi-year study of narwhal occurrence in the western Fram Strait—detected via passive acoustic monitoring. Polar Research 38: 3468 | 9.5 |
| SC/26/FI12 | Jourdain, E., Ugarte, F., Víkingsson, G. A., Samarra, F. I., Ferguson, S. H., Lawson, J., … & Desportes, G. (2019). North Atlantic killer whale Orcinus orca populations: a review of current knowledge and threats to conservation. Mammal Review. | 9.8 |
| SC/26/FI13 | Desforges, JP., Hall, A., McConnell, B., Asvid, A. R., Barber, J. L., Brownlow, A., … & Dietz, R. (2019). Response to L. Witting: PCBs still a major risk for global killer whale population. Marine Mammal Science, 35, 1201-1206 | 9.8 |
| SC/26/FI14 | Witting, L. (2019). Rebuttal against Desforges et al. (2018): No evidence for a global killer whale population collapse. Marine Mammal Science, 35(3), 1197-1200. | 9.8 |
| SC/26/FI15 | Outcome of the OSPAR-HELCOM workshop to examine possibilities for developing indicators for incidental by-catch of birds and marine mammals. | 7.1.2 |
| SC/26/FI16 | Status Update Scientific Publications Vol.11 | 5.5 |
| SC/26/FI17 | Report from Performance Review Panel | 5.8 |
| SC/26/FI18 | Draft OSPAR, NACES, and MPA Nomination Proforma post | 6.8 |
| SC/26/FI19 | Review Group Report on WGHARP | 8.1.2, 8.2.2 |
| SC/26/FI20 | Tracking Recommendations and Implementation within NAMMCO | 5.8 |
| SC/26/FI21 | Working Group on Bycatch of Protected Species (WGBYC) | 7 |
13-16 November 2018, M/S Polarlys
The NAMMCO Scientific Committee (SC) held its 25th meeting between 13-16 November 2018 on M/S Polarlys, from Bergen to Tromsø along the Norwegian coast.
The meeting was open only to members of the SC, and invited observers and participants.
Meeting Documents
01a – Draft Agenda (revised 071118)
01b – Draft ANNOTATED Agenda (revised 071118)
02 – Draft List of Participants
03 – Draft List of Documents (revised 141118)
Working and For Information Documents (invited participants only)
National Progress Reports
Japan (a) 2016/2017 – Small Cetaceans
14-17 November 2017, Reykjavik, Iceland
Meeting Documents
03 Draft-list-of-documents (as of 2 November)
04 Annex-2 Requests for Advice
Working and For Information Documents (invited participants only)