The negative impacts of whale‐watching

ECM Parsons - Journal of Marine Sciences, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Whale watching is an international industry worth more than US $2 billion globally and is
currently the greatest economic activity reliant upon cetaceans. However, there is concern …

The multiple functions of male song within the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) mating system: review, evaluation, and synthesis

LM Herman - Biological Reviews, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Humpback whales (M egaptera novaeangliae) are seasonal breeders, annually migrating
from high‐latitude summer feeding grounds to low‐latitude winter breeding grounds. The …

Status review of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) under the Endangered Species Act

SOM Bettridge, CS Baker, J Barlow, P Clapham… - 2015 - repository.library.noaa.gov
Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were listed as endangered in 1970 under the
Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, the precursor to the Endangered Species …

[PDF][PDF] A review and inventory of fixed autonomous recorders for passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammals

RS Sousa-Lima, TF Norris, JN Oswald… - Aquatic …, 2013 - academia.edu
Fixed autonomous acoustic recording devices (autonomous recorders [ARs]) are defined as
any electronic recording system that acquires and stores acoustic data internally (ie, without …

Effects of airgun sounds on bowhead whale calling rates: evidence for two behavioral thresholds

SB Blackwell, CS Nations, TL McDonald, AM Thode… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In proximity to seismic operations, bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) decrease their
calling rates. Here, we investigate the transition from normal calling behavior to decreased …

[HTML][HTML] The modelling and assessment of whale-watching impacts

LF New, AJ Hall, R Harcourt, G Kaufman… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years there has been significant interest in modelling cumulative effects and the
population consequences of individual changes in cetacean behaviour and physiology due …

Seismic surveys negatively affect humpback whale singing activity off northern Angola

S Cerchio, S Strindberg, T Collins, C Bennett… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Passive acoustic monitoring was used to document the presence of singing humpback
whales off the coast of Northern Angola, and opportunistically test for the effect of seismic …

Low energy expenditure and resting behaviour of humpback whale mother-calf pairs highlights conservation importance of sheltered breeding areas

L Bejder, S Videsen, L Hermannsen, M Simon… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding the behaviour of humpback whale mother-calf pairs and the acoustic
environment on their breeding grounds is fundamental to assessing the biological and …

The impact of noise from open-cast mining on Atlantic forest biophony

MHL Duarte, RS Sousa-Lima, RJ Young, A Farina… - Biological …, 2015 - Elsevier
The sound produced by human-made machinery (technophony) is known to exert negative
effects on animal communication and well-being. Mining is an important economic activity in …

[HTML][HTML] Whale-watch vessel noise levels with applications to whale-watching guidelines and conservation

P Arranz, NA de Soto, PT Madsen, KR Sprogis - Marine Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The number and size of whale-watching and swim-with-cetacean vessels are increasing
worldwide, but the noise impact on targeted species depends on vessel source …