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MINTAG

 20 May 2025: MINTAG is back in the field!
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By Intern NAMMCO
In MINTAG, News, Publications and reports
Posted 20/05/2025

20 May 2025: MINTAG is back in the field!

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 [...]

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 14 June 2024: First MINTAG deployments of 2024!
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By Naima El bani Altuna
In MINTAG, News
Posted 14/06/2024

14 June 2024: First MINTAG deployments of 2024!

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 [...]

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 22 August 2023: MINTAG fin whale tagging in East Greenland
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By Intern NAMMCO
In MINTAG, News
Posted 22/08/2023

22 August 2023: MINTAG fin whale tagging in East Greenland

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 [...]

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 24 July 2023: Fin whale tag 2.0
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By Intern NAMMCO
In MINTAG, News
Posted 24/07/2023

24 July 2023: Fin whale tag 2.0

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 [...]

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 08 June 2023: First deployment of fin whale tags
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By Intern NAMMCO
In MINTAG, News
Posted 08/06/2023

08 June 2023: First deployment of fin whale tags

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 [...]

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 10 May 2023: Reveal of the MINTAG Design
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By Intern NAMMCO
In MINTAG, News
Posted 10/05/2023

10 May 2023: Reveal of the MINTAG Design

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 [...]

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 4 August 2021: BLOG – Where do all the whales go?
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By Fern Wickson
In Blog, MINTAG, News
Posted 04/08/2021

4 August 2021: BLOG – Where do all the whales go?

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, [...]

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