Intro of the post. The ocean is becoming increasingly loud. Oil and gas exploration, shipping, and military activities bombard marine creatures with noise. Whales, turtles, fish, and invertebrates including oysters and crabs, use sound to survive.
On June 1, 2016, NOAA released a draft of its Ocean Noise Strategy Roadmap. The Strategy “is designed to support the implementation of an agency-wide strategy for addressing ocean noise over the next 10 years.” The Strategy is a sea change in how NOAA addresses sound. It recognizes that ocean noise and its impacts on the health of marine ecosystems should be necessary considerations in the government’s decision-making process – an evolution from NOAA’s previous, program-specific approach. The Strategy highlights the effects of noise-induced stress on animal health, reproduction, and the density and distribution of whales and notes that the cumulative impact of noise on marine life must be considered
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Intro of the post. The ocean is becoming increasingly loud. Oil and gas exploration, shipping, and military activities bombard marine creatures with noise. Whales, turtles, fish, and invertebrates including oysters and crabs, use sound to survive.
On June 1, 2016, NOAA released a draft of its Ocean Noise Strategy Roadmap. The Strategy “is designed to support the implementation of an agency-wide strategy for addressing ocean noise over the next 10 years.” The Strategy is a sea change in how NOAA addresses sound. It recognizes that ocean noise and its impacts on the health of marine ecosystems should be necessary considerations in the government’s decision-making process – an evolution from NOAA’s previous, program-specific approach. The Strategy highlights the effects of noise-induced stress on animal health, reproduction, and the density and distribution of whales and notes that the cumulative impact of noise on marine life must be considered