Alewives Avoid High-Frequency Sound
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in North American Journal of Fisheries Management
- Vol. 12 (3) , 407-416
- https://doi.org/10.1577/1548-8675(1992)012<0407:aahfs>2.3.co;2
Abstract
We studied the response of the alewife Alosa pseudoharengus to high-frequency sound to develop an acoustic system for preventing fish from entering power plant intakes. Four groups of alewives were subjected to different frequencies of sounds ranging from 110 to 150 kHz at sound pressure levels (SPLs, given in decibels [dB] in reference to 1 μPa) ranging from 125 to 180 dB. Each group of 20 or 25 fish was tested in a cage that was suspended in a flooded rock quarry. During the day, alewives schooled and strongly avoided pulsed tones (500 ms pulses, 1,000 ms apart) of 110 and 125 kHz at or above 175 dB, a continuous tone of 125 kHz at 172 dB, and pulsed broadband sound between 117 and 133 kHz at or above 157 dB. Although alewives habituated to tones, they avoided pulsed broadband sound at 163 dB more consistently. In one test, alewives did not habituate to this sound after 150 min of repeated exposure, The more consistent response to the broadband sound was probably due to the range of frequencies...Keywords
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