title: Acoustic Communication in Fishes and Potential Effects of Noise.
abstract: Many soniferous fishes such as cods and groupers are commercially important. Sounds are produced during courtship and spawning, and there is the potential for aquatic noise to interfere with critical behaviors and affect populations. There are few data on the response of wild populations of sound-producing fishes to acoustic noise. New motion and sound exposure fish tags could be used to assess the behavioral responses of large numbers of fish to noise exposure. Many factors, such as fishing mortality and environmental variability in prey supply, could also affect populations and potentially interact with the behavioral responses to noise.
authors.affiliation: Loggerhead Instruments, 6776 Palmer Park Circle, Sarasota, FL, 34238, USA. dmann@loggerheadinstruments.com.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Mann
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000819:Animal Communication; D000818:Animals; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D009622:Noise; D013018:Sound Spectrography
keywords: Glider; Grouper; Passive acoustics; Sciaenidae; Toadfish