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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 [...]

The NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on Abundance Estimates (AEWG) held a hybrid meeting on 21 January 2025 at the Fram Centre in Tromsø, Norway, chaired by Daniel Pike (Canada). The [...]

A recent study by Baumgartner and colleagues, titled “Kinship clustering within an ecologically diverse killer whale metapopulation”, was published in Heredity in January 2025. This [...]

The 31st meeting of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee was held in Tromsø, Norway, from 21 to 24 January 2025, chaired by Aqqalu Rosing-Asvid (Greenland). The meeting brought together scientific [...]

The focus of this volume is “Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Mammals.” If your research explores human-related disturbances affecting marine mammals in the North Atlantic—whether it involves [...]

A recent review by Kuletz and colleagues, titled “A review of climate change impacts on migration patterns of marine vertebrates in Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems”, was published in [...]

A recent study by Pedersen and colleagues, titled “Nontarget and suspect screening reveals the presence of multiple plastic-related compounds in polar bear, killer whale, narwhal and [...]

A recent study by Kovacs and colleagues, titled “Climate warming impacts on ringed seal breeding habitat in Svalbard”, was published in Ecological Modelling in July 2024. In this [...]

Volume 14 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications series is open for your contributions! The focus of this volume is “Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Mammals.” If your research explores [...]

We are excited to announce the 7th Marine Mammal Student Symposium co-organised by North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission, Norwegian Centre for Law of the Sea, and Department of Arctic and [...]