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A new study by Schiøtt and colleagues, titled “Recaptured ringed seals (Pusa hispida) in Greenland show diving patterns indicative of a behaviour related to daylight”, was published in the [...]

A study by Lopes and colleagues, titled “Population structure and divergence time among East Greenland and West Greenland/Eastern Canadian Arctic narwhals, Monodon monoceros”, was published in [...]

This week, we are having a highly important event, the 32nd meeting of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee. In this annual event, researchers from NAMMCO member countries (The Faroe Islands, [...]

We are excited to announce the 8th Marine Mammal Student Symposium co-organised by the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, Norwegian Centre for Law of the Sea, and Department of Arctic and [...]

A study by Mikkelsen and colleagues, titled “Spatial overlap among harbour, ringed and bearded seals in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard, during the post-moulting foraging period”, was published in the [...]

The Report of the NAMMCO Working Group on Pilot Whales is now available! The Working Group, chaired by Philip Hammond, met in November 2025 to conduct a stock assessment of long-finned pilot [...]

A new study by De Clerck and colleagues, titled “Trans-Atlantic movements of Atlantic white-sided dolphins, Leucopleurus acutus”, was published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science in [...]

Ending the year on a positive note, the latest publication in Volume 14 of NAMMCO Scientific Publications estimates low by-catch rates for minke whales in some fishing gears around Norway. The [...]

A new study by Sigurðsson and colleagues, titled “Spatiotemporal co-occurrence of whales and capelin on the east Greenland shelf during autumn”, was published in the journal Marine Biology in [...]

A study by Freitas and colleagues, titled “Impact of baleen whales on ocean primary production across space and time”, was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [...]