Scientific Working Groups - Reports

Scientific Committee Working Group, Workshop & Symposium reports – by year

Here you will find the reports of all the Scientific Committee Working Groups, Workshops, and Symposia, listed by year the meetings took place. The reports are also published in the Annual reports. You will find documents of past and upcoming meetings here.

You can also find the reports organised by theme.

2024

Genetics Working Group, October 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark

By-Catch Working Group, May 2024, Online

NAMMCO-JCNB Joint Working Group on Narwhal and Beluga, October 2020, Online (Note: This report has been reviewed by NAMMCO but not by the JCNB as the JCNB has not met in 2020 or hitherto in 2021)

2019

Abundance Estimates Working Group, October 2019, Tromsø, Norway

Ad hoc Working Group on Narwhal in East Greenland, September 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark

Joint ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp and Hooded seals, September 2019, Tromsø, Norway

Harbour Porpoise Working Group, March 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018

Joint IMR/NAMMCO International Workshop on the Status of Harbour Porpoises in the North Atlantic, December 2018, Tromsø, Norway

Supplementary files:

By-catch Working Group, October 2018, Online

Walrus Working Group, October 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark (revised June 2019, see item 11.2)

Abundance Estimates Working Group, May 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark – Revised October 2018

By-catch Working Group, April 2018, Online

2017

Workshop on Cetacean Abundance and Distribution in the North Atlantic, October 2017, Halifax, Canada

By-catch Working Group, May 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

NAMMCO-JCNB Joint Working Group, March 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

Global Review of Monodontids, March 2017, Hillerød, Denmark

Large Whale Assessment Working Group, January 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

2016

Abundance Estimates Working Group, October 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

Joint ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp and Hooded seals, September 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

Coastal Seals Working Group, March 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland

By-Catch Working Group, February 2016, Reykjavik, Iceland

2015

Steering Group on Survey Planning, Post-Survey Report, November 2015, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Large Whale Assessment Working Group, October 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

NAMMCO Symposium on the Impacts of Human Disturbance on Arctic marine mammals, with a focus on Belugas, Narwhals & Walrus, October 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

Steering Group on Survey Planning, April 2015, Online

Survey Planning Working Group, April 2015, Reykjavik, Iceland

Joint NAMMCO/JCNB Working Group on Narwhal and Beluga, March 2015, Ottawa, Canada

Note that the Narwhal Catch Allocation Sub-group met twice, 10-12 March 2014 in Denmark and 9-10 March 2015 in Canada. Reports from these meetings comprise Appendix 5 of the Joint NAMMCO/JCNB Working Group report listed above.

2014

Survey Planning Working Group, October 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark

Survey Planning Working Group, 26 March 2014, Online

Survey Planning Working Group, 18 March 2014, Online

The first meeting of the Narwhal Catch Allocation sub-group met 10-12 March 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The report is comprised in Appendix 5 of the Joint NAMMCO/JCNB Working Group listed under 2015.

Steering Group on Survey Planning, February 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark