“…Alternatively, successful fertilization success may have been impaired if sperm quality was affected by noise. Although not yet studied in fish, noise has a detrimental impact on sperm quality in other taxa (Kaiser et al, 2015;Choe et al, 2020;Abdollahi et al, 2021) with implications for fertilization success (Kowalski and Cejko, 2019). One of the mechanisms behind the decrease in sperm quality could be associated with stress responses, namely heightened cortisol or oxidative stress levels (Milla et al, 2009;Félix et al, 2021).…”