Assessing the impact of pile driving upon fish

• Main Author: Hawkins, Anthony
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2005
• Subjects: reconstruction; jetty; monitored; harbor; Scotland; sound; levees; percussive; vibratory pile driving; Dee; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/28n858z1

Pile driving associated with the removal and reconstruction of a jetty was monitored at a busy harbor in the North East of Scotland, adjacent to an important Atlantic salmon river. The main concern was with the impact of noise upon salmon migrating through the lower part of the river estuary. Pile d...