Narwhal & Beluga WG
Here you will find the meeting documents of past and upcoming meetings of the NAMMCO Narwhal & Beluga Working Group. Some of these documents require a password for access. Final reports are uploaded in the library.
The NAMMCO-JCNB Joint Scientific Working Group on Narwhal and Beluga (JWG) will meet in autumn 2021.
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.
Quantitative Sub-Group
MEETING MINUTES (password protected)
Meeting Documents May (password protected)
Meeting Documents February (password protected)
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)
24-27 September 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark
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)
