Maine Mammals Tested for Reactions to Military Sonar
Environment News Service, June, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> To learn how military active sonar systems affect whales and other marine mammals, scientists from NOAA Fisheries Service plan to expose animals in the Bahamas to the loud sonar sounds and monitor their behavior.
"Carefully controlled field studies in realistic conditions are essential and urgently needed for NOAA to fulfill its requirement to conserve and manage protected marine species," said William Hogarth, assistant administrator for NOAA Fisheries.
"These behavioral response studies on a highly-specialized acoustic range will provide some of the first detailed and direct measures of how deep-diving toothed whales react when they hear different natural and human sounds, like active sonar signals," he said.
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