TY - JOUR
TI - High Intensity Anthropogenic Sound Damages Fish Ears
AU - McCauley, R
AU - Fewtrell, J
AU - Popper, A
T2 - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
AB - Marine petroleum exploration involves the repetitive use of high-energy noise sources, air-guns, that produce a short, sharp, low-frequency sound. Despite reports of behavioral responses of fishes and marine mammals to such noise, it is not known whether exposure to air-guns has the potential to damage the ears of aquatic vertebrates. It is shown here that the ears of fish exposed to an operating air-gun sustained extensive damage to their sensory epithelia that was apparent as ablated hair cells. The damage was regionally severe, with no evidence of repair or replacement of damaged sensory cells up to 58 days after air-gun exposure.
DA - 2003/01//
PY - 2003
VL - 113
IS - 1
SP - 638
EP - 642
UR - http://scitation.aip.org/content/asa/journal/jasa/113/1/10.1121/1.1527962
DO - 10.1121/1.1527962
LA - English
KW - Noise
KW - Fish
ER -