Assessing the effects to fishes from pile driving: Application of new hydroacoustic criteria

38th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2009, INTER-NOISE 2009

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 3580-3587

  Stadler, John H ^a   Woodbury, David P ^b  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; ESSENTIAL FISH HABITAT; FEDERAL AGENCY; FISHERY CONSERVATION; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION'S; PHYSICAL INJURIES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SOUND EXPOSURE LEVELS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; UNDERWATER SOUND; WEST COAST;

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; EXHIBITIONS; FISHERIES; PILE DRIVING; PILES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

FISH;

EID: 84870051113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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