Marine Mammal Commission

2025 Annual Meeting

Emerging Technologies to Improve Efficiency and Support Innovation for Marine Mammal Stock Assessments

A drone is used to drop a tag onto the back of a sei whale. Credit: Laura Howes under NOAA Fisheries Permit #18059

A drone is used to drop a tag onto the back of a sei whale. Credit: Laura Howes under NOAA Fisheries Permit #18059.

The Commission is planning to hold its 2025 Annual Meeting on September 9-11 in La Jolla, California, focusing on emerging technologies to improve efficiency and support innovation for marine mammal stock assessments. Assessing marine mammal stocks gives us valuable information on population trends, productivity rates, estimates of human-caused mortality and other sources of serious injury, and more. These assessments allow us to evaluate the effectiveness of conservation and recovery measures, and to adjust management approaches as needed. The meeting will be public and open to all.

Agenda

Click here for a PDF copy of a draft public agenda.

Additional details will be released prior to the meeting. Following the meeting, this page will host the presentations, audio recordings, and brief summaries of each session below.