Scientists are rushing to learn more information about noise pollution in our local waters, while more vessels are projected to travel the Salish Sea in the coming years. FOX13
Dr. Jason Wood, Sea Mammal Research Unit Consulting's managing director, told FOX 13 that their work aims at tracking, and coming up with strategies to drop noise volumes in the Northern Pacific Ocean is up against the clock.
Removing the equipment allows researchers to recover raw data that can provide additional information on what the soundscape is in a particular location. The ultimate goal is to get that data into the hands of people that are working to reduce, re-route or slow vessel traffic that creates noise pollution in our region.Wood hopes that "Quiet Sound" – afrom large commercial vessels – can utilize the information they are discovering.
As more people arrive in the region, more cargo is expected to arrive by large shipping vessels. On top of that, you have refineries and other large-scale businesses that are planning expansions. There has been some focus on the issue of vessels, specifically the amount of traffic entering our local waters. When the Southern Resident Orca Task Force filed their final report in 2019, it had dozens of recommendations. Among them, a recommendation reading: "Determine how permit applications in Washington state that could increase traffic and vessel impacts could be required to explicitly address potential impacts to orcas.
"That is a key recommendation that came out of that task force, and we need to do a better job as a community of getting caught up on this," said Lyles. . He’s concerned about a growing potential for oil spills as more vessel traffic is added to Salish Sea. There is also a concern about the potential of ship strikes. His team believes that we’re operating with a key data gap: how many vessels are simply too many for our local marine wildlife.
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