Narwhal & Beluga Meetings
Narwhal & Beluga Meeting Documents
Here you will find the meeting documents of Scientific Working Groups, workshops, and symposia on narwhal and beluga. Some of these documents require a password for access. Final reports are uploaded in the library.
The JWG is a collaboration between the NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on the Population Status of Narwhal and Beluga in the North Atlantic and the Canada/Greenland Joint Commission on Conservation and Management of Narwhal and Beluga Scientific Working Group. The NEGWG is an Ad hoc NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on Narwhal in East Greenland.
NEGWG
The NAMMCO Ad hoc Working Group on Narwhal and Beluga in East Greenland (NEGWG) will hold a meeting from 12 to 15 December at the Greenland Representation in Copenhagen (Denmark). The Terms of Reference for this meeting can be found in the Draft Agenda document.
Working and For Information Documents (password protected)
JWG – Disturbance Workshop
The NAMMCO-JCNB Joint Working Group (JWG) on narwhal and beluga will meet the days 12-16th of December of 2022 at the Greenlandic Representation in in Copenhagen (Denmark). The JWG will hold a workshop to assess the anthropogenic impacts on marine mammals of mining activities in Canada and Greenland.
01 Revised Draft Agenda (07/12/2022)
02 Draft List of Participants and Observers (08/12/2022)
NEGWG
The NAMMCO Ad hoc Working Group on Narwhal and Beluga in East Greenland (NEGWG) will hold its second meeting from 25-29 October at the Greenland Representation in Copenhagen.
01 Revised Draft Agenda (Updated 20.10.2021)
03 Draft List of Documents (Updated 28.10.2021)
Meeting Documents (password protected) (Updated 28.10.2021)
JWG
The NAMMCO-JCNB Joint Scientific Working Group on Narwhal and Beluga (JWG) is planning to hold its next meeting in December 2021. Throughout 2021, a quantitative sub-group (QSG) has been meeting to inform the work of the JWG. The terms of reference for the QSG, as well as a list of participants can be found below.
JWG – Quantitative Sub-Group
MEETING MINUTES (password protected)
Meeting Documents September (password protected)
Meeting Documents August (password protected)
Meeting Documents June (password protected)
Meeting Documents May (password protected)
Meeting Documents February (password protected)
JWG
The NAMMCO-JCNB Joint Scientific Working Group on Narwhal and Beluga (JWG) will meet online from October 26-30 2020.
This JWG is a collaboration between the NAMMCO Scientific Committee Working Group on the Population Status of Narwhal and Beluga in the North Atlantic and the Canada/Greenland Joint Commission on Conservation and Management of Narwhal and Beluga Scientific Working Group.
Meeting documents
00 – Terms of Reference
01 – Draft Agenda
02 – Draft List of Participants (updated 26/10/2020)
03 – Draft List of Documents (updated 29/10/2020)
Meeting Documents (password protected and only available to participants)
NEGWG
An Ad hoc Working Group on Narwhal in East Greenland will meet at the Greenland Representation in Copenhagen between 24-27 September 2019.
The terms of reference for the meeting are:
- Review the latest information on surveys in East Greenland including options for updating the surveys from the 1980s.
- Review information of satellite tracking of narwhals in East Greenland
- Present the latest information on genetic discrimination of stocks in East Greenland
- Assess the importance of climate change on the distribution of narwhals in East Greenland
- Compile hunting statistics and information from hunters on availability of narwhals
- Assess the future sustainability of catches
Meeting documents
01 – Draft Agenda
02 – Draft List of Participants
03 – Draft List of Documents (updated 25.09.2019)
Working and For Information Documents (only available to participants)