Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 180, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113750
Keywords
Coastal areas; Anthropogenic noise; Passive acoustic monitoring; Vessel traffic; Bioacoustic
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By investigating the breeding site distribution of the brown meagre fish in the Venice sea inlets, it was found that their choice of breeding sites is not influenced by boat noise, but rather by factors such as nighttime, water depth, and water current.
The brown meagre (Sciaena umbra) is a vulnerable vocal fish species that may be affected by boat noise. The breeding site distribution along the anthropized Venice sea inlets was investigated, by using the species' chorusing activity as a proxy of spawning. Passive acoustic campaigns were repeated at 40 listening points distributed within the three inlets during three-time windows in both summer 2019 and 2020. The role of temporal, morphological, and hydrodynamic variables explaining the observed distribution patterns was evaluated using a GLM approach, considering also human-induced pressures among the candidate predictors. The GLM analysis indicates a higher probability of recording S. umbra chorus after sunset in deeper areas of the inlets, characterized by low water current, while the underwater noise overlapping the species' hearing range and boat abundance did not play any role. This suggests that the species' breeding site choice in the inlets was not influences by boat induced pressure.
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