Avian Flu

• 2024 Avian flu brochure (pdf)

Health related resources

• AECO 2022 Community Visit recommendations (pdf)
• AECO CSHP 2022 pre-season notes (jpg)
• AECO’s COVID-19 Regional Update (11 March 2022)
• DISCONTINUED: Guideline for expedition cruises Svalbard during the Covid-19 (discontinued guideline, to be used for reference only)
• Norwegian industry standard for infection control measures for expedition cruises (recommended standards, not mandatory by law)
• Canada: COVID-19 guidance to cruise operators

Operational Resources for Members, Field Staff, and Mariners

• AECO Field Staff Standards
• AECO’s Off-Vessel Risk Assessment Tool (O-VRAT)
• Post-Visit Report Tutorial and Overview of Operational Tools for Members
• AECO Clean Seas
• AECO Online Assessment
• Webinar on AECO’s tools

Databases

• TopoSvalbard – interactive map of Svalbard
• Place names in Svalbard
• Cruisehandbook for Svalbard
• Svalbard goose map
• Svalbard flora
• The Global Observation and Biodiversity Information Portal
• BarentWatch – NCA information sea and coast
• Arctic Web – DMA web Greenland sea and coast
• Easytide – World-wide tide water prediction
• Seasketch – Collaborative Planning Tool
• Arctic Voyage Planning Guide (Canada)
• NASA visual satellite images
• Happywhale – id individual marine mammals, for fun and for science

Maps

• Greenland maps
• Place names in Greenland
• Svalbard maps
• Iceland maps by National Land Survey
• Iceland maps by Loftmyndir ehf
• Open maps by the Government of Canada

Forms

• NP Marine Mammal sighting form (xls)
• Polar bear score card (pdf)

Publications

• Avoiding collisions with whales (pdf)
• How close should boats come to the fronts of calving glaciers? (pdf)
• ACCESS Polar Code breifing note (pdf)
• Prevention of microbial species introductions to the Arctic (2018 study) (pdf)
• Conservation Strategy for the Polarbear 2015 (pdf)
• Svalbard
• 2019 Epinion Cruise Study Svalbard
• 2014 Walrus survey Svalbard (Kovacs & all) (pdf)
• Safety risk-assessment Eastern Svalbard (pdf)
• AECO’s Pre-study cruise guide training in Svalbard (pdf)
• Greenland
• Brochure about Kitsissunnguit or Grønneejland (pdf)
• Canada
• Climate change and adaptation in expedition cruise tourism in Nunavut (pdf)
• WWF Western Canadian Arctic Mariner’s Guide – Recommendations (pdf)
• WWF Western Canadian Arctic Mariner’s Guide – Habitat (pdf)
• WWF Mariners Guidelines regarding Marine mammals of Hudson Bay – Recommendations (pdf)
• WWF Eastern Canadian Arctic Mariners Guide – Recommendations
• Bear deterrents – Reducing Bear-People Conflicts in Nunavut (pdf)
• Government of Nunavut: Operator Code of Conduct (pdf)
• Government of Nunavut: Visitor Code of Conduct (pdf)
• Search and rescue
• NOU 2022: 1 Excerpt: Cruise traffic in Norwegian waters and adjacent sea areas
• 2019 AECO Joint Arctic SAR TTX and workshop (pdf)
• 2018 AECO Joint Arctic SAR TTX and workshop (pdf)
• 2017 AECO Joint Arctic SAR TTX and workshop (pdf)
• 2016 AECO Joint Arctic SAR TTX and workshop (pdf)
• Information about Ny-Ålesund radio silence issued by Kings Bay (pdf)

Acts and regulations

• Svalbard
• Main acts
• The Svalbard Treaty (pdf)
• Svalbard Environmental Protection Act (pdf)
• Regulations regarding protected areas
• Regulations and travel restrictions
• Other Svalbard regulations
• Firearms and polar bear safety
• Sailing directions in Svalbard and Jan Mayen (pdf)
• Regulations relating to environmental impact assessment and delimination of the land-use planning areas in Svalbard (pdf)
• Regulations relating to environmentally hazardous substances, waste and waste water and waste management fees in Svalbard (pdf)
• Regulation realting to harvesting of the fauna on Svalbard (pdf)
• Information from the Governor of Svalbard regarding winter cruising and breaking ice (pdf)
• Regulations regarding whale safari in Norway
• Jan Mayen
• NEW 2024 regulations applying for visits to Jan Mayen
• Greenland
• NB! Please note that a cyber attack on the Greenland Government home page in early spring 2022 still causes some links below not to work. Please contact the Greenland Expedition Office at exp@nanoq.gl for details.
• Main acts
• Landsting Act No. 29 of 18 December 2003 on the Protection of Nature (doc)
• Executive order on the National Park
• Executive order on acces to and conditions for travelling in certain parts of Greenland
• Other regulations
• Legislation and logistics relevant for cruising in Greenland
• Proclamation 5 2023 Self-governing order no. 5 of 6 March 2023 on the capture and protection of polar bears – unofficial translation
• Executive order on the Nature Reserve in Melville Bay
• Executive order on Arnangarnup Qoorua
• Executive order on travel in remote parts of Greenland
• Executive Order no. 7 of 17 June 1992 from the Greenland Home Rule Authority concerning the National Park in North and East Greenland, as amended by Executive Order no. 16 of 5 October 1999. Chapter 2 , sec 3
• Greenland Act No. 18 of 19. November 2007 on the preservation of cultural monuments
• The Government of Greenland’s Executive Order No. 17 of October 28, 2019 on the protection and capture of birds (pdf)
• Act on control and regulation of firearms
• Regulations for use of radio equipment in Greenland
• Act about Safe navigation for Greenland (Danish) (pdf)
• Danish Maritime Authority on pilotage requirements in Greenland
• Act about Activities and obligations of pilots around Greenland (Danish) (pdf)
• Greenland Mineral Licence and Safety Authority letter of May 5, 2018 (pdf)
• Greenland CITES Turist folder ENG nov 2016
• 2023 Greenland Sensitive Zones maps
• 2023 Greenland Sensitive Zones table
• Russia
• Regulations Russia
• Canada
• 2022 Notices to Mariners 1- 46
• Notices to Mariners – Monthly editions
• Guidelines for Passenger Vessels Operating in the Canadian Arctic – TP 13670
• Safety procedures for inflating small craft sponsons (pdf)
• Marine Mammals Regulations – Canada
• Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database
• Species at Risk Act – Canada
• Government of Nunavut: Marine Tourism Act (pdf)
• Regulations relating to environment and climate change Canada
• Recently published marine regulations (scroll down to bottom of page)
• Cruise Ship Inspection Program 2011 Operations Manual (pdf)
• CBSA Operational Bulletin, Arctic Cruises and Work Permit Exemptions (pdf)
• Canadian Portable Water Regulations
• Transport Canada Regulations regarding Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s)
• ISR Cruise Management Plan 2022-2025
• 2018-06-22 Memo to AECO regarding Nunavut Marine Tourism Regulations (doc)
• WWF Canadian Arctic Shipping Checklist (pdf)
• Alaska
• MMPA and ESA Regulatory Highlights (pdf)
• Steller Sea Lion Rookeries and Haulouts in Alaska Waters (pdf)
• Iceland
• Map of protected areas in Iceland (jpg)
• Environment Agency of Iceland
• Specific rules – Protection- and Management plan for Hornstrandir (pdf)
• Icelandic Conservation Act no. 60 10 April 2013

Drone

• Svalbard – Drone information from the Governor of Svalbard
• Svalbard/Norway – drone regulations
• Greenland – drone regulations (Danish main page)
• Kingdom of Denmark drone regulations (in Danish) (pdf)
• Canada – Flying your drone safely and legally
• Canada – Drone safety

Permits

• Svalbard
• Notification of travel plans Svalbard
• Greenland
• Travel Plans to Remote Areas of Greenland incl. the National Park
• Canada
• Letter from Nunavik Marine Region Planning Commision to AECO on obligations under the Nunavik Inuit Land Claim Agreement
• Nunavik Marine Region Planning Commision Guidelines for Proponents
• Map of Nunavik Marine Region

Statistics

• Tourism statistics Greenland