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On March 24, 2025, hunters, veterinarians, and decision-makers from 11 regions, gathered in Tromsø (Norway) to tackle a shared priority: improving animal welfare in marine mammal hunting. Hosted [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A new study by Lydersen and colleagues, titled “Annual migrations of male sperm whales from high-latitude foraging grounds to low-latitude breeding areas”, was published in Scientific Reports in [...]

This year’s meetings were held in Tromsø, Norway, from 25 to 27 March 2025, with representatives from all four NAMMCO member countries, as well as observer states and inter- and non-governmental [...]

The 2025 MINTAG tagging season has officially begun, with Japan being the first partner country to head out today! The MINTAG project is an international scientific project between the Faroe [...]

A new study by Tange Olsen and colleagues, titled “Complex origins and history of the relict Fennoscandian ringed seals”, was published in Ecology and Evolution in April 2025. The study explores [...]