Dear friends and colleagues, We are sorry to inform you all that fellow marine mammal biologist Finm Larsen died unexpectedly on Monday, October 21st, 2024. Finn Larsen worked for many years at the Greenland Fisheries Research Institute leading the large whale program, and later with AQUA (the Danish Fisheries Institute) where he focused on fisheries bycatches of marine mammals and birds. He is missed by many, Per [Palsbøll] ---------- Per J. Palsbøll (he/him) Professor of Marine Evolution and Conservation Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences University of Groningen Nijenborgh 7 9747 AG Groningen The Netherlands Mobile +31(0)6 4870 3295 Mail address: PO Box 11103 9700 CC Groningen The Netherlands Adjunct scientist Center for Coastal Studies 5 Holway Avenue, Provincetown, MA 02657, U.S.A. ---------- "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress." As quoted in "Niels Bohr : The Man, His Science, & the World They Changed" (1966) by Ruth Moore, p. 196 ----------