title: A Change in the Use of Regulatory Criteria for Assessing Potential Impacts of Sound on Fishes.
abstract: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) currently uses interim criteria developed on the US West Coast to assess the potential onset of peak and cumulative effects of noise on fishes. Analyses performed for this project provided adequate support for the NMFS to use the peak criterion (i.e., area ensonified by 206 dB re 1 μPa peak sound pressure level [SPL(peak)]) for estimating the incidental take of Hudson River sturgeon. Application of the peak criterion (rather than the cumulative criterion) could have implications for future construction projects because estimates of take using SPL(peak) will generally be considerably lower than estimates of take based on the cumulative sound exposure level.
authors.affiliation: AKRF, Inc., 7250 Parkway Drive, Suite 210, Hanover, MD, 21076, USA. fjacobs@akrf.com.
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Jacobs
authors.affiliation: AKRF, Inc., 7250 Parkway Drive, Suite 210, Hanover, MD, 21076, USA. jkrebs@akrf.com.
authors.forename: Justin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Krebs
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA. apopper@umd.edu.
authors.forename: Arthur N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Popper
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D060389:Construction Industry; D004777:Environment; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology*; D009518:New York; D009622:Noise; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D013016:Sound
keywords: Hydroacoustics; National Marine Fisheries Service; Pile driving; Regulatory criteria; Sturgeon