Abstract
Many soniferous fishes such as cods and groupers are commercially important. Sounds are produced during courtship and spawning, and there is the potential for aquatic noise to interfere with critical behaviors and affect populations. There are few data on the response of wild populations of sound-producing fishes to acoustic noise. New motion and sound exposure fish tags could be used to assess the behavioral responses of large numbers of fish to noise exposure. Many factors, such as fishing mortality and environmental variability in prey supply, could also affect populations and potentially interact with the behavioral responses to noise.
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James Locascio, Carrie Wall, and Misty Nelson were instrumental in the discovery and description of numerous fish sounds over the past 8 years. Chris Koenig and Felicia Coleman from Florida State University and Richard Appeldoorn, Michelle Schärer, and Michael Nemeth from the University of Puerto Rico collaborated on the grouper studies. Funding for these studies came from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, CCRI, and the National Science Foundation.
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Mann, D.A. (2016). Acoustic Communication in Fishes and Potential Effects of Noise. 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_81
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