The National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA Fisheries) is announcing the finalization and availability of the “2024 Update to: Technical Guidance for Assessing the Effects of Sound on Marine Mammal Hearing (Version 3.0): Underwater and In-Air Criteria for Onset of Auditory Injury and Temporary Threshold Shifts.”
A large-scale experiment finds no evidence that a seismic survey impacts a demersal fish fauna
Oct 11
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Comments from the Australian Institute of Marine Science
New research has found marine seismic surveys used in oil and gas exploration are not impacting the abundance or behaviour of commercially valuable fishes in the tropical shelf environment in north-western Australia.
The research is the first of its kind to use dedicated seismic vessels to measure the impacts of the survey’s noise in an ocean environment, with the eight-month experiment conducted within a 2500 square fishery management zone near the Pilbara coast.
