Publications and reports

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 [...]

NAMMCO has released the report from the Committee on Hunting Methods meeting held online on 11 November 2025 and chaired by Ulla S. Wang (Faroe Islands). Norwegian seal hunter Bjørne Kvernmo [...]

NAMMCO has published the report of the Scientific Committee Working Group on Genetics, which met on 28 of October 2025. Chaired by Morten Tange Olsen (Globe Institute), the meeting aimed to [...]

A study by Delbosc and colleagues titled “Development of a conservative automated tonal detector with high performance at a large temporal scale”, was published in the journal Bioacoustics, in [...]

  The latest article in NAMMCO Scientific Publications Vol. 14, by Skye Wynn-Simmonds and colleagues, is titled “Assessing shipping noise as a potential driver of harbour seal (Phoca [...]

A new article titled “Follow-up study after four years shows reduced deterrence effect of pingers on harbour porpoises in Norwegian gillnet fishery” by André Moan and Arne Bjørge has [...]