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EIA Database

The importance of underwater sounds to gadoid fishes

2019
Open Access Peer Reviewed Publication

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Anthony D. Hawkins and Marta Picciulin

Gadoids (codfish) gather at particular locations to spawn,where they exhibit complex reproductive behavior with visual and acoustic displays. Gadoid species are most sensitive to sounds from...
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Keywords: Acoustic displays, Anthropogenic, Codfish, Gadiods, Hearing, Human impacts, Protection, Reproductive behaviour, Spawning

The protection of marine European Protected Species from injury and disturbance. Guidance for the marine area in England and Wales and the UK offshore marine area.

2010
Open Access Guidance notes

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

JNCC (Joint Nature Conservation Committee),

This guidance is intended to provide a resource for marine users, regulators, advisors and the enforcement authorities when considering whether an offence of deliberately disturbing or...
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Keywords: European Protected Species, Guidance, Marine species, Protection