Whales and Dolpins

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 Wams and colleagues, titled “Singers of the high Arctic; Seasonal acoustic presence of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) around Svalbard, Norway”, was published in Scientific [...]

A new study by Lydersen and colleagues, titled “Annual migrations of male sperm whales from high-latitude foraging grounds to low-latitude breeding areas”, was published in Scientific Reports in [...]

A new study by Heide-Jørgensen, titled “Are narwhals critical for the meat supply in East Greenland?”, was published in Arctic Science in February 2025. The study examines how much narwhals [...]

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 [...]

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 new article by Bellon and colleagues, titled “Changes in cetacean occurrence in Faxaflói Bay, Iceland, as observed from whale watching vessels,” has been published in the NAMMCO [...]

A new article by Ramírez-Martínez and colleagues, titled “Distribution and habitat use of deep-diving cetaceans in the central and north-eastern North Atlantic”, has been published in [...]

A new study by Ngo and colleagues, titled “Bowhead whales spend more time in waters with colder sea surface temperatures”, has been published in the NAMMCO Scientific Publications [...]