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  Green Marine has signed a nine-month contract with Transport Canada to provide insight on underwater noise generated by shipping and its effects on marine life, along with potential solutions. “I am pleased to announce Transport Canada’s support to this project,” said the Honourable Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport. “The report that will be presented by Green Marine will help us to make informed decisions on how to minimize the underwater impacts of our marine transportation system.” “This agreement is a logical next step following the Memorandum of Cooperation that Green Marine and Transport Canada signed in 2012,” explained David Bolduc, Green Marine’s executive director. “We share the goal of enhancing environmental protection and performance in the marine shipping sector and we found a concrete way to collaborate in that regard with this project.” To meet the contract terms, Green Marine has hired Véronique Nolet as project manager – marine habitat. While temporarily replacing the organization’s program manager last fall, she laid out the foundations for some of Green Marine’s future environmental performance indicators regarding underwater noise. She also set up a working group to focus on the issue and three meetings have been held to date. In addition to ...

Underwater-radiated noise from commercial ships may have both short and long-term negative consequences on marine life, especially marine mammals. IMO’s Edward Kleverlaan, Head, Office for LC/LP & Ocean Affairs, has outlined IMO’s work on measures to reduce underwater noise, including the Guidelines for the reduction of underwater noise from commercial shipping to address adverse impacts on marine life (MEPC.1/Circ.833), at the World Organisation of Dredging Associations (WODA) Workshop on Underwater Sound in Relation to Dredging​, in Paris, France . The workshop focused on: Role of sound in the behaviour and well-being of marine species and ecosystems; Major sources, and trends in the prevalence and magnitude, of underwater noise; Impacts of underwater noise on various types of species, as well as broader impacts on ecosystem health, including implications of cumulative impacts of multiple sources of noise; Major knowledge gaps regarding the short- and long-term negative consequences for marine animals and other biota in the marine environment, as well as socioeconomic implications.   Additional information IMO MEPC.1/ Circ.833 Experts debate underwater noise impact Bureau Veritas launches underwater noise reduction notation RINA tackles ocean noise pollution Source: IMO  In the start, I was frank with you propecia before and after has changed my ...