Marine mammal science

Species information, studies, and reports.

Services and information

Searchable database filtered by name, group, region, province, territory and conservation status.

Actions to help protect Canada's endangered whales.

Harp and grey seal, St. Lawrence and Nunavik beluga, bowhead whales, narwhal.

Marine mammal population dynamics and prey population mortality.

Commercial shipping, marine mammal viewing, coastal development, pollution, noise, Small cetacean (porpoise) bycatch.

Arctic sea ice, Hudson Bay animals, Harp seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Northwest Atlantic.

Population monitoring, recovery, conservation, report a sighting, publications.

Tracking large-scale migration, movements and the remote habitats of marine species.

Satellite-linked transmitters are miniaturized sensors recording physical data.

Research activities, impaces of climate and ecosystem changes, advice.

Scientists and science programs based in research institutes across the country.