ACOUSTIC NOISE POLLUTION FROM MARINE INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITIES: EXPOSURE AND IMPACTS
Abstract
The improvements in marine technological developments propagate urbanization in the ocean environment. The construction or operational activities of marine structures such as energy plants, oil platforms, pipe-lines, sea-tunnel passages, or cable-stayed suspension bridges, and vessel traffic are sources of underwater noise pollution. How underwater sounds such as piling, pole drilling, or machinery noises may affect the marine live is mostly ignored in marine construction, and there is lack of information regarding underwater sound effects on marine live in the oceans. Recently, a remarkable interest is developing concerning underwater sound effects, especially in aquaculture facilities, with experimentation of musical stimuli or various noises caused by pumps or filter systems on behavior and stress responses of fish in culture conditions. With the increase of urbanization and progressive development of marine industries, more and more pressure from human-generated (anthropogenic) underwater sound pollution may threaten marine mammals, fish species and invertebrates from underwater noises that in terms might be called as “Underwater Noise Pollution”. The future of marine life and that of human being, and the dramatic increase of underwater sound pollution is a new debate that needs to be controlled in a sustainable way with environment-sound approaches. Therefore the potential effects of various sound sources derived from marine industrial activities have been reviewed in this study.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Hydrobiology
Journal Section
Review
Authors
Halit Kuşku
0000-0003-4109-2370
Türkiye
Murat Yiğit
*
0000-0001-8086-9125
Türkiye
Sebahattin Ergün
0000-0002-9077-9438
Türkiye
Ümüt Yiğit
0000-0002-1378-2422
Türkiye
Nic Taylor
0000-0001-8034-5815
United Kingdom
Publication Date
October 1, 2018
Submission Date
July 2, 2018
Acceptance Date
August 9, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 1 Number: 4