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Galway Bay FM
7 April 2021
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Galway Bay fm newsroom – Researchers from NUI Galway have found that trawling noise can put protected marine mammals at risk.
The study has revealed that noise from bottom trawling in or near underwater canyons can disturb protected mammals, such as fin whales and beaked whales, in important feeding grounds and along migratory paths.
The team linked with i CRAG, the SFI Research Centre for Applied Geosciences in NUIG’s Ryan Institute, used hydrophones to record the impact of working trawlers on marine areas in two surveys in the Irish and Celtic seas.
Analysis showed the noise is focused through underwater canyons and is carried to deeper waters, having a potentially harmful effect on the marine environment and the protected mammals which feed in them and migrate through them.
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