ArticleScience advances2023
Small reductions in cargo vessel speed substantially reduce noise impacts to marine mammals.
Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- A hybrid method combining rule-based filter and machine learning to detect porpoise and vessel sounds from a pulse event recorder.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Reduced shipping during COVID-19 enhanced the diurnal feeding activities of a small odontocete: implications of modern anthropogenic activities.National science review · 2025Article
- Hydroacoustic sensing of seismic events during the Tajogaite volcanic eruption (La Palma, Spain).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Current species protection does not serve its porpoise-Knowledge gaps on the impact of pressures on the Critically Endangered Baltic Proper harbour porpoise population, and future recommendations for its protection.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Long-distance communication can enable collective migration in a dynamic seascape.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Increased Yangtze finless porpoise presence in urban Wuhan waters of the Yangtze River during fishing closures.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Understanding vessel noise across a network of marine protected areas.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2024Article
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Abstract
Global reductions in the underwater radiated noise levels from cargo vessels are needed to reduce increasing cumulative impacts to marine wildlife. We use a vessel exposure simulation model to examine how reducing vessel source levels through slowdowns and technological modifications can lessen impacts on marine mammals. We show that the area exposed to ship noise reduces markedly with moderate source-level reductions that can be readily achieved with small reductions in speed. Moreover, slowdowns reduce all impacts to marine mammals despite the longer time that a slower vessel takes to pass an animal. We conclude that cumulative noise impacts from the global fleet can be reduced immediately by slowdowns. This solution requires no modification to ships and is scalable from local speed reductions in sensitive areas to ocean basins. Speed reductions can be supplemented by routing vessels away from critical habitats and by technological modifications to reduce vessel noise.
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