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The Committee on Hunting Methods met online 20 June 2024 and the report is now available online. The Committee reviewed the 2023 catch database, and discuss to proceed with securing hunter [...]

The NAMMCO Working Group on Enhancing User Involvement in NAMMCO Decision Making (UIWG) held an online meeting on June 25, 2024, and the report is now available online. During the meeting the [...]

A new peer-reviewed note by Mike O. Hammill and colleagues, entitled “Application of the Precautionary Approach to the Management of Marine Mammals in Northern Canada”, published in [...]

Lonnie Mikkelsen and co-authors (2024) investigated the behaviour of 40 male walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), which they tagged with GPSs in the Svalbard Archipelago. The aim of this study was to [...]

The North Atlantic Sighting Survey (NASS) series, a significant international effort to monitor cetacean abundance and distribution in the North Atlantic, is gearing up for its seventh survey [...]

We are very excited to announce that the first whales of the 2024 MINTAG test season were tagged by the team Norway! During the summer of 2023, 19 minke, fin, humpback and killer whales were [...]

At NAMMCO’s 31st Annual Meeting held in Reykjavík, Iceland, from March 19th to 21st, the spotlight was on sustainable use of marine mammals, animal welfare, and proposals related to conservation [...]

NAMMCO is proud to announce the upcoming 31st Meeting of the Council, which will take place in Reykjavík, Iceland, on 19 – 21 March 2024. The meeting will address the challenges and opportunities [...]

The report of the 30th meeting of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee (SC)  is now available! The SC met for the 30th time on 22–26 January, in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, led by Chair Aqqalu [...]