26 June 2025: My time at NAMMCO
Background After completing my master’s in marine biology at Bangor University, where I focused on the behaviour of bottlenose dolphins, I spent a year working on coral restoration and turtle [...]
17 June 2025: New chapter published on hooded seals in marine mammal encyclopaedia
A new chapter by Haug, Folkow, and Biuw, titled “Hooded Seal Cystophora cristata (Erxleben, 1777)”, has been published in the Handbook of the Mammals of Europe (online update 2025). This chapter [...]
Marine Mammal Welfare Workshop, March 2025
24 March 2025, Tromsø, Norway NAMMCO and the Fisheries Agency of Japan hosted the Marine Mammal Welfare Workshop (MMWWS 2025). The workshop Animal Welfare in the Context of Marine Mammal Hunting [...]
10 June 2025: New study highlights key winter areas for bowhead whales around Svalbard
A new study by Wams and colleagues, titled “Singers of the high Arctic; Seasonal acoustic presence of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) around Svalbard, Norway”, was published in Scientific [...]
03 June 2025: The Report of the May meeting of the Committee on Inspection and Observation is now available!
The latest report of the NAMMCO Committee on Inspection and Observation (CIO) has just been published. The report summarises the CIO meeting held online on 6 May 2025, chaired by Guro Gjelsvik [...]