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Sturgeon movements were monitored during a pile-driving operation. Fewer sturgeon were detected during pile driving and remained for a shorter time than during silent control periods. Moreover, the short time spent by sturgeon near pile driving suggests that they were unlikely to have reached the criterion of 187 dB re 1 μPa2·s cumulative sound exposure level. These results suggest that sturgeon are likely to avoid impact pile driving and not remain long enough to experience physiological effects, thus providing empirical evidence that the 206 dB re 1 μPa peak sound pressure level is the appropriate criterion for assessing the impacts of pile-driving noise on sturgeon.
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We acknowledge K. Edwards and P. Casper of the New York State Thruway Authority for supporting this study. We also acknowledge B. Martin and A. MacGillivray from JASCO Applied Sciences for their work on the sturgeon monitoring and underwater noise measurements. We thank K. Dunton and M. Frisk at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; D. Fox at Delaware State University; and A. Kahnle, K. Hattala, and A. Higgs at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for their efforts in acoustic tagging the sturgeon that were detected during monitoring. A. Kahnle and K. Hattala also provided comments and insight on Hudson River sturgeon that improved our analysis.
The work reported here was conducted for the New York State Thruway Authority and the opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect views of the Authority.
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Krebs, J., Jacobs, F., Popper, A.N. (2016). Avoidance of Pile-Driving Noise by Hudson River Sturgeon During Construction of the New NY Bridge at Tappan Zee. In: Popper, A., Hawkins, A. (eds) The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 875. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_67
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