MINTAG

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 [...]

MINTAG news! Last week, Steering Group members Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen, Rikke Guldborg Hansen and their team tagged fin whales with the fin whale tag in the Angmassilik fjord in East [...]

After the test shootings of five fin whale tags in Japan in June 2023, the Steering Group decided to change the fin whale tag design for the next tests in August 2023. Kenji Konishi and his team [...]

We are excited to announce that the first three fin whale tags of the MINTAG project have been deployed by Steering Group member Kenji Konishi in the Southern Sea of Okhotsk, Japan! In the [...]

The MINTAG project has come a long way and we are happy to present you the designs of the first generation of tags, called V0b tags! Two tags were designed for the first deployment in summer [...]

The North Atlantic and the North Pacific abounds in whales, but for most of them, we know very little about their migration patterns and wintering grounds. The fast-moving rorquals (the fin, sei, [...]