ArticleScientific reports2019
Effects of boat noise on fish fast-start escape response depend on engine type.
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- Approaching merchant ships elicit behavioral changes in Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus) in the St. Lawrence River, Canada.Journal of fish biology · 2025Article
- Boat Noise Increases the Oxygen Consumption Rate of the Captive Juvenile Large Yellow Croaker,Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Fish responses to underwater sounds depend on auditory adaptations: An experimental test of the effect of motorboat sounds on the fish community of a large fluvial lake.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on the observed density of coral reef fish along coastal habitats of Moorea, French Polynesia.Regional environmental change · 2023Article
- Transcriptomic and Behavioral Studies of Small Yellow Croaker (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Changes to an urban marina soundscape associated with COVID-19 lockdown in Guadeloupe.Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · 2021Article
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- Boat noise alters individual behaviors but not communication between partners in a fish-shrimp mutualism.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Vessel noise represents a relatively recent but rapidly increasing form of pollution, which affects the many organisms that use sound to inform their behavioural decisions. Recent research shows that anthropogenic noise can lead to reduced responsiveness to risk and higher mortality. The current laboratory experiment determined whether the playback of noise from motorboats powered by two- or four-stroke outboard engines affected the kinematics of the fast-start response in a juvenile coral reef fish, and the time scale over which the effects may occur. Results show that the two engine types produce slightly different sound spectra, which influence fish differently. Playback of 2-stroke engines had the greatest effect on activity, but only for a brief period (45 s). While noise from 4-stroke outboard engines affected fast-start kinematics, they had half the impact of noise from 2-stroke engines. Two-stroke engine noise affected routine swimming more than 4-stroke engines, while 4-stroke noise had a greater effect on the speed at which fish responded to a startle. Evidence suggests that the source of the noise pollution will have a major influence on the way marine organisms will respond, and this gives managers an important tool whereby they may reduce the effects of noise pollution on protected communities.
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