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North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission (NAMMCO)

NAMMCO is an international regional body for cooperation on conservation, management and study of cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and pinnipeds (seals and walruses) in the North Atlantic.

The members of NAMMCO — Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and Norway — are committed to sustainable and responsible use of all living marine resources, including marine mammals.

Through regional cooperation, the NAMMCO member countries aim to strengthen and further develop effective conservation and management measures for marine mammals. Acknowledging the rights and needs of coastal communities to make a sustainable living from what the sea can provide, such measures should be based on the best available scientific evidence and user knowledge and take into account the complexity and vulnerability of the marine ecosystem.

The NAMMCO Agreement focuses on consolidating and advancing scientific knowledge of the North Atlantic marine ecosystem as a whole, and understanding better the role of marine mammals in this system. In 2017 NAMMCO member countries reaffirmed their cooperation through the Nuuk Declaration.

NAMMCO Catch database:

This database of reported catches is searchable and it is possible to filter the information by country, species or area. It is also possible to sort the different columns in ascending or descending order and to show up to 100 entries per page.

Carry-over from previous years are included in the quota numbers, where applicable.

NAMMCO aims to ensure that this database is kept up to date with correct and validated catch data. The reported catch data for harbour seals in Greenland prior to 2012 is not included in the database due to known sources of error. This includes identified errors in where harbour seal catch data has been entered in hunting reports, and cases of species misidentification.

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Identifier
e1ecda51-ad96-4857-9528-3884f4e18ce3
Credit
North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission
Point of contact
  NAMMCO - Geneviève Desportes ( General Secretary )
+47 950 21 228
https://nammco.no/team/genevieve-desportes/
Point of contact
  NAMMCO - Charlotte Winsnes ( Deputy Secretary )
+47 915 46 430
https://nammco.no/team/charlotte-winsnes/
Point of contact
  NAMMCO - Fern Wickson ( Scientific Secretary )
+47 403 21 002
https://nammco.no/team/fern-wickson/
Mission Atlantic - Resources
  • Database
  • Program and project
Mission Atlantic - Case Studies
  • Norwegian Sea
Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters
  • /Human activities/Fisheries
  • /Biological oceanography/Birds, mammals and reptiles
Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)
  • Biological data
  • Socio-economic data
Mission Atlantic - Work Package
  • WP5 Assessing state, drivers and tipping points
Metadata language
English
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
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OnLine resource
NAMMCO website ( WWW:LINK )
OnLine resource
NAMMCO Catch database ( WWW:LINK )
Hierarchy level
initiative

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Source
  • Estimates of Cetacean Abundance in the North Atlantic of Relevance to NAMMCO. NAMMCO Scientific Publications 11.
File identifier
e1ecda51-ad96-4857-9528-3884f4e18ce3 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
initiative
Date stamp
2025-05-16T09:17:10.104056Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  Ifremer - Sextant
ZI Pointe du Diable , Plouzane , Brittany , 29280 , France
https://sextant.ifremer.fr/eng
 
 

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Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters
/Biological oceanography/Birds, mammals and reptiles /Human activities/Fisheries
Mission Atlantic - Case Studies
Norwegian Sea
Mission Atlantic - Data type (DMP)
Biological data Socio-economic data
Mission Atlantic - Resources
Database Program and project
Mission Atlantic - Work Package
WP5 Assessing state, drivers and tipping points

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