Whales and Dolpins

A new article was recently published in Nature’s Scientific Reports by leading author Paolo Cipriani (University of Rome, Norwegian Institute of Marine Research), and co-authored by Bjarni [...]

Christian Lydersen, Tore Haug and Martin Biuw, members of the NAMMCO Scientific Committee, are co-authors on a new study focussing on the niches of marine mammals in the European Arctic, [...]

The NAMMCO Scientific Committee ad hoc Working Group on Narwhal in East Greenland (NEGWG) met in October 2021 under the chairmanship of Roderick Hobbs (USA). The [...]

Kathrine Ryeng, chair of NAMMCO’s Committee on Hunting Methods, is the primary author of a new study that focused on the health status of by-caught harbour porpoises and was recently published in [...]

Polar Research, the scientific journal of the Norwegian Polar Institute, has published their new volume “Beluga whales: knowledge from the wild, human care and Traditional Ecological Knowledge”. [...]

It is our pleasure to announce that the 12th article in Volume 11 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications Series – Sightings Surveys in the North Atlantic: 30 years of [...]

 It is our pleasure to announce that the 11th article in Volume 11 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications – Sightings Surveys in the North Atlantic: 30 years of [...]

We are pleased to announce that the 10th article in Volume 11 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications Series – Sightings Surveys in the North Atlantic: 30 years of counting [...]

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) and the Convention for Migratory Species (CMS) have assembled a Whale Watching Handbook that is now freely available online. The handbook is a flexible [...]