Harp and Hooded Seal Meeting Documents
Here you will find the meeting documents of past and upcoming meetings of the Joint ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp and Hooded Seals, as well as workshops and symposia. Some of these documents require a password for access. Final reports are uploaded in the library.
21-25 August 2023, Tromsø, Norway
The Joint ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp and Hooded Seals (WGHARP) will meet at the Fram Centre in Tromsø between 21-25 August 2023. The meeting will be Co-Chaired by Martin Biuw (Norway) and Sophie Smout (UK).
Meeting documents are available on the ICES Sharepoint here.
22-26 May 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark
Following the recommendation of WGHARP, ICES held a benchmark workshop to review and update the assessment model for harp and hooded seals. The workshop was chaired by Daniel Howell (Norway) and Alejandro Buren (Argentina).
The workshop report is available here.
NAMMCO-ICES Seal Modelling Workshop (WKSEALS)
The purpose of this joint workshop is to enable different expert research teams to compare approaches for modelling populations of a range of northern phocid species with similar life histories, focusing on species for which abundance estimates are fundamentally based on pup counts. The genesis for this workshop was a recommendation in 2019 by the ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp and Hooded Seals (WGHARP), who recommended that ICES and/or NAMMCO convene a workshop on population assessment models for seals in the North Atlantic to advance model development with respect to uncertainty in fecundity and other input parameters. Techniques developed in this workshop will help inform future ICES benchmark meetings intended to review and improve assessment methodology.
Meeting documents for this workshop are available on the ICES Sharepoint site.
2-6 September 2019, Tromsø, Norway
The Joint ICES/NAFO/NAMMCO Working Group on Harp and Hooded Seals (WGHARP) will meet at the Fram Centre in Tromsø between 2-6 September 2019 under teh Chairmanship of Mike Hammill.
Meeting documents are available on the ICES Sharepoint here.
Reports from WGHARP are available in the NAMMCO library here.