title: Formal comment to Gong et al.: Ecosystem scale acoustic sensing reveals humpback whale behavior synchronous with herring spawning processes and re-evaluation finds no effect of sonar on humpback song occurrence in the Gulf of Maine in fall 2006.
authors.affiliation: Integrated Statistics, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Risch
authors.affiliation: Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Corkeron
authors.affiliation: Marine Acoustics, Inc., Middletown, Rhode Island, United States of America.
authors.forename: William T
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Ellison
authors.affiliation: Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America.
authors.forename: Sofie M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Van Parijs
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000818:Animals; D050640:Humpback Whale; D014828:Vocalization, Animal