Large whale assessment meeting documents
14-16 January 2026 The Large Whale Assessment Working Group (LWAWG) will meet in January 2026, to assess fin and minke whales for Iceland. Meeting documents 01 – Draft Agenda 02 – Draft List of [...]
23 December 2020: Table of Cetacean Abundance Estimates in the North Atlantic
It is our pleasure to announce that Volume 11 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications Series – Sightings Surveys in the North Atlantic: 30 years of counting whales has now been completed with a [...]
9 December 2020: New Article on Narwhal Abundance in the Canadian High Arctic
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 [...]
24 July 2020: New Article on Cetacean Abundance Estimates from 2014-2018 Norwegian Ship-board Surveys
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 [...]
16 July 2020: New Article on Cetacean Abundance Estimates from 2002–2013 Surveys Conducted by Norwegian Vessels
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 [...]
19 May 2020: New Article on Cetacean Abundance Estimates
It is our pleasure to announce that the fifth article in Volume 11 of the NAMMCO Scientific Publications Series – Sightings Surveys in the North Atlantic: 30 years of counting whales – has now [...]
3 September 2019: The sei whale page is now published
Did you know that there is a whale species named after a fish? The sei whale got its name from the Norwegian word “sei” (saithe/coalfish) because both the whale and the fish used to [...]