Publications and reports

The latest report of the Committee on Inspection and Observation (CIO) of NAMMCO has just been published. The report summarises the latest CIO meeting held online on the 26th of August 2024 and [...]

A study by Andvik et al., titled “Intercorrelations of Chlorinated Paraffins, Dechloranes, and Legacy Persistent Organic Pollutants in 10 Species of Marine Mammals from Norway, in Light of [...]

A new study by Pöyhönen and colleagues dives into the fine-scale distribution and seasonal presence of sperm whales at high latitudes. The study titled: “High Arctic “hotspots” for sperm whales [...]

Jossey and colleagues published a new study titled “Population structure and history of North Atlantic Blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus musculus) inferred from whole genome sequence analysis” [...]

A new study by Podolskiy, Teilmann, and Heide-Jørgensen offers new insights into the complex diving behaviour of bowhead whales. The paper, entitled “Synchronization of Bowhead [...]

The Committee on Hunting Methods met online 20 June 2024 and the report is now available online. The Committee reviewed the 2023 catch database, and discuss to proceed with securing hunter [...]

The NAMMCO Working Group on Enhancing User Involvement in NAMMCO Decision Making (UIWG) held an online meeting on June 25, 2024, and the report is now available online. During the meeting the [...]

Frie and Lindström’s paper is titled: “Exploring the effects of methodological choices on the estimation and biological interpretation of life history parameters for harbour porpoises [...]

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 [...]