Short-term behavioral responses of marine fish to the playback noise from offshore wind turbine operation: A marine medaka study

IF 4.9 3区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Marine pollution bulletin Pub Date : 2025-09-17 DOI:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2025.118699

Xuezhou Peng , Lintai Zheng , Haowen Zhang , Chenxi Li , Hangtian Zhao , Weiqin Ma , Tieyu Wang , Wenhua Liu , Liangliang Yang

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Abstract

Offshore wind farms integrated with aquaculture optimize ocean space but may impact farmed fish behaviors through noise. This study examined the short-term (10 min) behavioral responses of marine medaka (Oryzias melastigma) to turbine noise using tank-based playback experiments. Three behavioral parameters (i.e., instantaneous swimming speed, fish school area ratio, and inter-individual distance) calculated from video footage were analyzed using generalized linear mixed models with time and treatment group (noise versus control) as fixed factors. Five fish were randomly selected per group with three independent replicates treated as random effects. A significant interaction between time and group was only detected for instantaneous swimming speed, though all three parameters decreased significantly under noise, indicating swimming and schooling behavior disruption. Although this controlled tank experiment requires field validation and caution in extending findings to other species, the results emphasize the need to include noise pollution in environmental impact assessments for co-located wind-aquaculture farms.

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海洋鱼类对海上风力涡轮机运行回放噪声的短期行为反应：海洋medaka研究。

与水产养殖相结合的海上风电场优化了海洋空间，但可能通过噪音影响养殖鱼类的行为。本研究采用基于水箱的回放实验，研究了海洋medaka （Oryzias melastigma）对涡轮机噪音的短期（10分钟）行为反应。采用广义线性混合模型，以时间和处理组（噪声与对照）为固定因素，对视频片段计算的三个行为参数（瞬时游泳速度、鱼群面积比和个体间距离）进行分析。每组随机选取5尾鱼，3个独立重复作为随机效应。时间和群体之间的显著相互作用仅在瞬时游泳速度上被检测到，尽管所有三个参数在噪音下都显著下降，表明游泳和学校行为中断。虽然这个控制池实验需要现场验证，并且在将研究结果扩展到其他物种时需要谨慎，但结果强调需要将噪音污染纳入位于同一地点的风力养殖场的环境影响评估中。

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Marine pollution bulletin 环境科学-海洋与淡水生物学

CiteScore

10.20

自引率

15.50%

发文量

1077

审稿时长

68 days

期刊介绍： Marine Pollution Bulletin is concerned with the rational use of maritime and marine resources in estuaries, the seas and oceans, as well as with documenting marine pollution and introducing new forms of measurement and analysis. A wide range of topics are discussed as news, comment, reviews and research reports, not only on effluent disposal and pollution control, but also on the management, economic aspects and protection of the marine environment in general.