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A new peer-reviewed note by Mike O. Hammill and colleagues, entitled “Application of the Precautionary Approach to the Management of Marine Mammals in Northern Canada”, published in [...]

Lonnie Mikkelsen and co-authors (2024) investigated the behaviour of 40 male walruses (Odobenus rosmarus), which they tagged with GPSs in the Svalbard Archipelago. The aim of this study was to [...]

The NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on By-Catch met up online on May 16, 2024. The meeting was chaired by Kimberly Murray (NOAA, USA). The working group formulated the official data [...]

The North Atlantic Sighting Survey (NASS) series, a significant international effort to monitor cetacean abundance and distribution in the North Atlantic, is gearing up for its seventh survey [...]

The meetings were held in Reykjavík, Iceland on 19-21 March 2024. Representatives from all four NAMMCO Member countries, as well as Observer countries, and inter- and non-governmental [...]

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 [...]

We are pleased to announce the first publication of Volume 13 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications series – Marine Mammals in the North Atlantic (II). The article, “Addressing epistemic [...]

The Committee on Inspection and Observation (CIO) of NAMMCO has released its latest report. The report summarises the latest CIO meeting held online on the 16th of May 2024 and chaired by Ulla S. [...]

NAMMCO is committed to making marine mammal hunting both safe and efficient, with a focus on reducing the time to death for the animals and ensuring the safety of hunters. At the heart of this [...]

We are happy to announce that the call for papers for Volume 14 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications series is now open! This volume’s theme will be “Anthropogenic Impacts on Marine Mammals”. We [...]