Whales and Dolpins

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 [...]

The Global Review on Monodontids (GROM) updated stock structures, identified various stressors, and assessed stock status. NAMMCO is delighted that the results of the GROM have now been published [...]

We are happy to announce that the 8th article in Volume 11 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications Series – Sightings Surveys in the North Atlantic: 30 years of counting whales has now [...]

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