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Population-level consequences of seismic surveys on fishes : an interdisciplinary challenge

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Date
07/2019
Author
Slabbekoorn, Hans
Dalen, John
de Haan, Dick
Winter, Hendrik V.
Radford, Craig
Ainslie, Michael A.
Heaney, Kevin D.
van Kooten, Tobias
Thomas, Len
Harwood, John
Keywords
Airgun
Behavioural response
Dynamic energy budget
Fish hearing
Population consequences of acoustic disturbance
Stress physiology
SH Aquaculture. Fisheries. Angling
QH301 Biology
T-NDAS
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Abstract
Offshore activities elevate ambient sound levels at sea, which may affect marine fauna. We reviewed the literature about impact of airgun acoustic exposure on fish in terms of damage, disturbance and detection and explored the nature of impact assessment at population level. We provided a conceptual framework for how to address this interdisciplinary challenge, and we listed potential tools for investigation. We focused on limitations in data currently available, and we stressed the potential benefits from cross‐species comparisons. Well‐replicated and controlled studies do not exist for hearing thresholds and dose–response curves for airgun acoustic exposure. We especially lack insight into behavioural changes for free‐ranging fish to actual seismic surveys and on lasting effects of behavioural changes in terms of time and energy budgets, missed feeding or mating opportunities, decreased performance in predator‐prey interactions, and chronic stress effects on growth, development and reproduction. We also lack insight into whether any of these effects could have population‐level consequences. General “population consequences of acoustic disturbance” (PCAD) models have been developed for marine mammals, but there has been little progress so far in other taxa. The acoustic world of fishes is quite different from human perception and imagination as fish perceive particle motion and sound pressure. Progress is therefore also required in understanding the nature and extent to which fishes extract acoustic information from their environment. We addressed the challenges and opportunities for upscaling individual impact to the population, community and ecosystem level and provided a guide to critical gaps in our knowledge.
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Slabbekoorn , H , Dalen , J , de Haan , D , Winter , H V , Radford , C , Ainslie , M A , Heaney , K D , van Kooten , T , Thomas , L & Harwood , J 2019 , ' Population-level consequences of seismic surveys on fishes : an interdisciplinary challenge ' , Fish and Fisheries , vol. 20 , no. 4 , pp. 653-685 . https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12367
Publication
Fish and Fisheries
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12367
ISSN
1467-2960
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 The Authors. Fish and Fisheries published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/17655

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