The mariculture industry is planning to move offshore due to the decline of China's inshore
fishery resources, the deterioration of the water environment, inefficient industrial structure …

The ocean is a key component of the Earth's dynamics, providing a great variety of
ecosystem services to humans. Yet, human activities are globally changing its structure and …

Offshore energy acquisition through the construction of wind farms is rapidly becoming one
of the major sources of green energy all over the world. The construction of offshore wind …

Geophysical exploration of the seabed is typically done through seismic surveys, using
airgun arrays that produce intense, low-frequency-sound pulses 1 that can be heard over …

The aquatic world of animals is an acoustic world as sound is the most prominent sensory
capacity to extract information about the environment for many aquatic species. Fish can …

Seismic airgun surveys to map petroleum deposits in the seabed may impact behaviour of
marine animals over large distances. Understanding whether fish spawning behaviour is …

Globally, biogenic temperate reefs are among the most threatened habitats. In the North Sea
in particular, large shellfish reefs were lost owing to fishing activities in the 1900s. The …

The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is among the commercially most important fish species in
the world. Since sound plays such an important role in the lives of Atlantic cod and its related …

The larval and post-larval forms of many marine organisms, such as oysters, crabs, lobster,
coral, and fish, utilize ambient acoustic cues to orient, settle, or metamorphose. In this study …

Anthropogenic noise is globally increasing in aquatic ecosystems, and there is concern that
it may have adverse consequences in many fish species, yet the effects of noise in field …