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Abstract submission reminder! We are ONE WEEK away from the deadline for registering as a presenter for the 8th Marine Mammal Student Symposium. The 8th Marine Mammal Student Symposium is [...]

The call for papers for Volume 15 of NAMMCO Scientific Publications is now open! The volume will comprise two issues: Issue 1: “Marine mammal abundance: estimates and surveys” is a special topic [...]

The 32nd Meeting of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee was held at the Faroe Marine Research Institute in Tórshavn (Faroe Islands) on 19–22 January 2026. Chaired by Dr Sandra Granquist (Iceland), [...]

A study by Vacquié-Garcia and colleagues, titled “Intra-species differences in impacts of climate change: A case study of the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata)”, was published in the journal [...]

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 [...]