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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 [...]

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 [...]

Background After finishing my bachelor’s in marine science in Croatia, I decided to continue my academic journey in Bergen, Norway. The research on harbour porpoise I did for my master’s thesis [...]

Background Already during my bachelor’s in environmental science, I learned about NAMMCO and used their species distribution maps in my presentations. The timing was always off to apply for the [...]

A year ago, ahead of the United Nations Food Summit 2021, NAMMCO sent a letter to the UN Special Envoy for the 2021 Food Systems Summit, Dr. Agnes Kalibata, with copy to the Director of the [...]

  Background My first contact with NAMMCO’s work was during my Marine Mammal Sciences Masters in Scotland, where we studied the management of marine mammals and I focussed on the Arctic for [...]

Background I first learned about NAMMCO during my Polar Law studies in Iceland. As we studied the protection and conservation of the Arctic marine environment, the work of the Commission was [...]

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, [...]

Background My name is Nicolai Pilgård Scherdin and I have had the pleasure of spending the past 6 months as an intern at the NAMMCO Secretariat. Being a Danish Biology MSc student, I had first [...]

Background My name is Mana Tugend and I have been working at the NAMMCO Secretariat for the past year – nine months as an intern and the following three as Scientific and Communication [...]