title: Is the Venice Lagoon Noisy? First Passive Listening Monitoring of the Venice Lagoon: Possible Effects on the Typical Fish Community.
abstract: Three passive listening surveys have been carried out in two of the three Venice lagoon tide inlets and inside the Venice island. The spectral content and the intensity level of the underwater noise as well as the presence or absence of Sciaena umbra and the distribution of its different sound patterns have been investigated in all the recording sites. The passive listening proved to be successful in detecting S. umbra drumming sounds in both Venice lagoon tide inlets. Our results indicate that the spectral content and the level of underwater noise pollution in the Venice lagoon could affect fish acoustic communication.
authors.affiliation: Department of Life and Physical Sciences, Marine and Freshwater Research Centre, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland. marta.bolgan@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bolgan
authors.affiliation: CSEE-Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, 34127, Trieste, Italy. marta.picciulin@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Picciulin
authors.affiliation: ARPA FVG-Regional Agency for Environmental Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia, 33057, Palmanova, UD, Italy. antocoda@yahoo.it.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Codarin
authors.affiliation: Laguna Project snc, 30122, Venezia, Italy. riccardo.fiorin@lagunaproject.it.
authors.forename: Riccardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fiorin
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Center for Estuarine and Coastal Marine Sciences (CEMAS), University Ca' Foscari Venice, 30122, Venice, Italy. matzuc@unive.it.
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zucchetta
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Center for Estuarine and Coastal Marine Sciences (CEMAS), University Ca' Foscari Venice, 30122, Venice, Italy. mala@unive.it.
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Malavasi
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000818:Animals; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D005843:Geography; D007558:Italy; D009622:Noise; D013637:Tape Recording; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D014867:Water
keywords: Brown meagre; Noise; Ship noise; Sound pressure level