An Italian proposal on the monitoring of underwater noise: Relationship between the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and marine spatial planning directive (MSP)

Maccarrone, Vincenzo; Filiciotto, Francesco; Vincenzi, Giovanni de; Mazzola, S.; Buscaino, Giuseppa

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2015.07.006

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“…The European Union Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)(2008/56/EC) promotes the achievement of a good quality environmental status for European waters by 2020. In particular, Descriptor 11.2 about “continuous low frequency sound” aims to monitor trends in the ambient noise level within the 1/3 octave bands 47 of 63 and 125 Hz (centre frequencies) (re 1 μΡa rms). To obtain a baseline to develop a noise-monitoring plan in marine shallow waters (i.e., how long should the monitoring last?…”

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Temporal patterns in the soundscape of the shallow waters of a Mediterranean marine protected area

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The study of marine soundscapes is an emerging field of research that contributes important information about biological compositions and environmental conditions. The seasonal and circadian soundscape trends of a marine protected area (MPA) in the Mediterranean Sea have been studied for one year using an autonomous acoustic recorder. Frequencies less than 1 kHz are dominated by noise generated by waves and are louder during the winter; conversely, higher frequencies (4–96 kHz) are dominated by snapping shrimp, which increase their acoustic activity at night during the summer. Fish choruses, below 2 kHz, characterize the soundscape at sunset during the summer. Because there are 13 vessel passages per hour on average, causing acoustic interference with fish choruses 46% of the time, this MPA cannot be considered to be protected from noise. On the basis of the high seasonal variability of the soundscape components, this study proposes a one-year acoustic monitoring protocol using the soundscape methodology approach and discusses the concept of MPA size.

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“…This will affect their behavior with potential for affecting individual fitness (there should be some endpoint that characterizes the outcome that we should be concerned about). Different defined thresholds have been set by organizations such as NOAA (Horowitz and Jasny, 2007;Hatch et al, 2016) and the European Union Maccarrone et al, 2015) for acute and incidental exposure to anthropogenic noise sources. However, in many instances data gaps still severely restrict the derivation of noise exposure thresholds and in some cases explicit threshold values for certain effects are not scientifically defensible with little or no supporting data.…”

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“…However, the articles we assessed in general also agreed with another of the Williams et al (2014b) findings in that the majority of the papers concentrated on ecological impacts, management, and policy rather than physical interests. For example, Maccarrone et al (2015) and Farcas et al (2016), both considered best practices for assessing marine noise, while studies such as those carried out by Pine et al (2016) and Houghton et al (2015) consider the direct ecological impacts of anthropogenic noise producing activities on specific species and in particular areas. Although some journals such as Marine Mammal Science or JASA may have been more strongly represented than others in our literature search, this could perhaps largely be attributed to the key words used during our search.…”

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“…Perhaps unsurprisingly, we found them to be largely in agreement with one another once we considered the content of the articles, the workshop discussion, and rationale behind scoring of questions. Hooker and Gerber, 2004;Firestone and Jarvis, 2007;Haren, 2007;Weilgart, 2007;Tyack, 2008;Codarin et al, 2009;Hatch and Fristrup, 2009;Wright et al, 2011;Simmonds et al, 2014;Williams et al, 2014a;Bas et al, 2015;Williams et al, 2015a;Erbe et al, 2016b;Hatch et al, 2016;Pine et al, 2016 2 13 10 4 Lesage et al, 1999;Buckstaff, 2004;Wright et al, 2007;Hatch and Fristrup, 2009;Jensen et al, 2009;Ellison et al, 2011;Merchant et al, 2012b;Williams et al, 2014a;Maccarrone et al, 2015;Brooker and Humphrey, 2016;Erbe et al, 2016b;Farcas et al, 2016;Prins et al, 20163 13 11 3 Nowacek et al, 2001Johnson and Tyack, 2003;Firestone and Jarvis, 2007;Horowitz and Jasny, 2007;Weilgart, 2007;Hatch and Fristrup, 2009;Holt et al, 2009;Wieland et al, 2010;Williams et al, 2014a;…”

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The Grand Challenges in Researching Marine Noise Pollution from Vessels: A Horizon Scan for 2017

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Chronic anthropogenic underwater noise, such as vessel noise, is now recognized as a world-wide problem. Marine noise from vessels, ranging from super tankers to small motorboats is increasingly recognized as being both a persistent and pervasive pollutant. Furthermore, due to its spatial and temporal variability, vessel noise pollution represents a particular challenge for marine conservation, management, and planning. This paper presents the outputs of a horizon scanning exercise that brought together a group of 40 individuals from across Canada, including: researchers, policy makers, NGOs and other end-users who work in the field of marine acoustics. The goal was to identify priority information needs, related to marine vessel acoustics, to inform new research and address policy needs. Via an iterative Delphi style process, participants identified 10 priority research questions related to marine vessel acoustic science; for example, How important is it to identify and maintain acoustic refugia? What attributes of marine vessels are the most effective indicators of marine noise? The questions were then further considered in terms of extent of current knowledge, time scale by which they can be achieved, the financial resources required and the importance of answering the question. Subsequently, the authors conducted a search of the peer-reviewed literature to situate the challenges highlighted by the horizon scanning exercise within the broader global research. Results show that investigating the attributes of marine vessels that are the most effective indicators of marine noise is a viable research question to tackle first. In addition, underpinning many of these questions is the need of long-term data collection and monitoring of both vessel traffic and marine mammal populations.

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“…Although several national and international management measures have been taken to reduce risks for local population, their effectiveness may be reduced in sea areas with intenisve human activities responsible sea noise pollution (Hildebrand, 2009;Ross, 2005;460 Andrew et al, 2002), that can cause communication masking, stress, hearing loss or habitat abandonment (Nowacek et al, 2007;Clark et al, 2009;Lavender et al, 2014;Nelms et al, 2016). In this context underwater noise pollution mapping (Tasker et al, 2010), has been identified as a major research priority (Maccarrone et al, 2015). Our effort to map the potential noise sources on effect of noise, potentially impacting turtles from a distance to 24 nm from the considered area.…”

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A modelling framework for MSP-oriented cumulative effects assessment

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This research presents a comprehensive Cumulative Effects Assessment (CEA) based on the Tools4MSP modelling framework tested for the Italian Adriatic Sea. The CEA incorporates five methodological advancements: (1) linear and non-linear ecosystem response to anthropogenic pressures/effects, (2) modelling of additive, dominant and antagonist stressor effects, (3) implementation of a convolution distance model for stressor dispersion modelling, (4) application of a CEA backsourcing (CEA-B) model to identify and quantify sources of anthropogenic pressures affecting environmental components, based on the convolution distance model and (5) a novel CEA impact chain visualization tool based on Sankey diagrams. Results from CEA in the Italian Adriatic Sea show that highest CEA scores are located in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Port of Trieste and Venice Lagoon inlets) while abrasion, marine litter and selective extraction are the most pronounced pressures within the 12 nm. Results from CEA-B application for two case studies evidence a clear distinction among local human impacts (trawling, small scale fishery) versus long-range diffusive human impacts (underwater noise and marine litter). Results were discussed for their geospatial outcomes, importance for transboundary effects assessment, conservation planning and future application potentials.

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An Italian proposal on the monitoring of underwater noise: Relationship between the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and marine spatial planning directive (MSP)

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Temporal patterns in the soundscape of the shallow waters of a Mediterranean marine protected area

Temporal patterns in the soundscape of the shallow waters of a Mediterranean marine protected area

The Grand Challenges in Researching Marine Noise Pollution from Vessels: A Horizon Scan for 2017

A modelling framework for MSP-oriented cumulative effects assessment

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