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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 [...]

A new study by Heide-Jørgensen, titled “Are narwhals critical for the meat supply in East Greenland?”, was published in Arctic Science in February 2025. The study examines how much narwhals [...]

A new study by Postel and colleagues, titled “Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N5) detected in an Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) in the Svalbard Archipelago, Norway, [...]

A recent study by McCarthy and colleagues, titled “Circumpolar Population Structure, Diversity and Recent Evolutionary History of the Bearded Seal in Relation to Past and Present [...]

NAMMCO will hold its 32nd Annual Meeting in Tromsø, Norway, from 25th  to 27th  March 2025. The meeting will include sessions of the Council and Management Committees.  We are excited to announce [...]

The V International Orca Symposium 2025 was an exciting year for those of us who love orcas (“orca-holics”, if you will!), as from 16-21 February 2025 orca scientists from around the world [...]

A recent study by Baumgartner and colleagues, titled “Kinship clustering within an ecologically diverse killer whale metapopulation”, was published in Heredity in January 2025. This [...]

The focus of this volume is “Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Mammals.” If your research explores human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic—whether it involves [...]