The NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on Abundance Estimates (AEWG) held a hybrid meeting on 21 January 2025 at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, Norway, chaired by Daniel Pike (Canada). The [...]
The 31st meeting of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee was held in Tromsø, Norway, from 21 to 24 January 2025, chaired by Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid (Greenland). The meeting brought together scientific [...]
The North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO) is proud to present Volume 13 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications series. Marine Mammals in the North Atlantic (II) is a collection of [...]
Marina Metić is NAMMCO’s new intern. She comes from Croatia but has lived in Norway for the past two years. She fell in love with the sea and marine mammals, particularly whales, as a kid and [...]
The Benchmark Workshop for Harp and Hooded Seals (WKBSEALS) was held from the 22nd to the 26th of May 2023 at the ICES headquarters in Copenhagen, co-chaired by Alejandro Buren (Argentina) and [...]
We are pleased to welcome our new staff to the NAMMCO Secretariat! Maria Garagouni and Naima El bani Altuna joined last Monday our team as the new Deputy Secretaries, focusing on Science and [...]
The paper “Stuck in a corner: Anthropogenic noise threatens narwhals in their once pristine Arctic habitat” by Outi Tervo (Greenland Institute of Natural Resources) and co-authored by NAMMCO [...]
The paper “Prolonged baleen hormone cycles suggest atypical reproductive endocrinology of female bowhead whales” by Nadine Lysiak (Suffolk University, USA) and co-authored by NAMMCO Scientific [...]
The NAMMCO Panarctic Bearded Seal Workshop (BSWS) was held online from the 21st to the 23rd of March 2023, co-Chaired by Peter Boveng (NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center) and Christian Lydersen [...]