The impact of experimental impact pile driving on oxygen uptake in black seabream and plaice

Acoustic Impacts of Offshore Wind Energy on Fishery Resources: An Evolving Source and Varied Effects Across a Wind Farm’s Lifetime

“…Trials that use a "ramp-up" procedure (amplitude fadeins applied as a mitigation strategy) also elicited immediate diving responses similar to normal exposures (Neo et al, 2016). Black seabream (Spondyliosoma cantharus) and European seabass have been found to increase ventilation rates and/or oxygen uptake when exposed to replayed and in situ pile-driving noise (184 SELcum), whereas European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) showed no significant changes (Bruintjes et al, 2016;Poulton et al, 2016; Figure 3c). After long-duration exposures, animals no longer show elevated ventilations nor did they respond to other short-term, impulsive signals such as seismic survey noise, indicating a change in hearing sensitivity or desensitization (Radford et al, 2016).…”

Effects of marine noise pollution on Mediterranean fishes and invertebrates: A review

“…These results could be related to the experimental settings not representative of real conditions (see Akamatsu et al, 2002;Rogers et al, 2016), and/or also to a rapid recovery, an increase in tolerance or a change in hearing sensitivity, resulting in an absence of permanent/detectable effects on the measured variables. Other studies showed that juvenile and adult European seabass, and adult black seabream exposed to pile driving noise, displayed a decrease or increase of oxygen consumption rate (Bruintjes et al, 2016b;Debusschere et al, 2016), which is indicative of a stress-induced response. Pile driving has also been reported to affect the structure and dynamics of shoals of juvenile seabass that tend to be less cohesive, less directionally ordered and less coordinated in speed and directional changes (Herbert-Read et al, 2017).…”

“…Significant effects of pile driving noise on oxygen consumption and grouping behavior have been mostly detected on confined individuals following exposure to the "real" pile driving noise in the natural environment (Santulli et al, 1999;Bruintjes et al, 2016a;Debusschere et al, 2016;Hawkins et al, 2014). On the contrary, the studies where no effect has been observed used playbacks records of real noises emitted either in aquaria or in the field (Bolle et al, 2012;Debusschere et al, 2014;Bruintjes et al, 2016b;Radford et al, 2016). The two exceptions reviewed here are the case of European plaice directly exposed to the real pile driving noise, where no detectable effects on oxygen consumption have been reported (Bruintjes et al, 2016b), and the modification of structure and dynamics of shoals of European seabass reported in aquaria (Herbert-Read et al, 2017).…”

“…On the contrary, the studies where no effect has been observed used playbacks records of real noises emitted either in aquaria or in the field (Bolle et al, 2012;Debusschere et al, 2014;Bruintjes et al, 2016b;Radford et al, 2016). The two exceptions reviewed here are the case of European plaice directly exposed to the real pile driving noise, where no detectable effects on oxygen consumption have been reported (Bruintjes et al, 2016b), and the modification of structure and dynamics of shoals of European seabass reported in aquaria (Herbert-Read et al, 2017). Santulli et al (1999) investigated the potential effects of another type of acute noise, the air gun acoustic waves.…”

Ontogenetic variation in the hearing sensitivity of black sea bass (Centropristis striata) and the implications of anthropogenic sound on behavior and communication

“…With the development of these renewable energy regions there will be an increase in pile driving during the construction process. There is evidence that marine pile driving can cause negative effects in fishes, including barotrauma (Casper et al, 2017), anti-predator behavior (Spiga et al, 2017), elevated ventilation rates (Radford et al, 2016) and oxygen uptake rates (Bruintjes et al, 2016), and disruption to schooling dynamics (Herbert-Read et al, 2017). Furthermore, fishermen have recently expressed concern that the sound produced during pile drivingalong with benthic surveys and operation of renewable energy facilitiesmay have negative effects on the behavior and/or distribution of target species (Thomsen et al, 2006).…”