Noise impacts of the industrialization of the ocean

What is it about?

As human enterprise expands ever further into the ocean, new survey and communications technologies are expanding along with it. The noises created by some of these technologies are likely to disrupt biological uses of marine acoustical channels.

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Why is it important?

Ocean noise pollution is expanding a a rapid pace - colonizing ever wider frequency bands that are also used by marine life. This disruption is not merely a sentimental annoyance, it may threaten the very communication fabric of marine life at allntrophic levels, and this our own food supply and marine harvesting industries