Plastics and oil aren’t the only types of pollution having a negative impact on fish.
According to a new study entitled Sound the Alarm, noise is also a growing problem for the aquatic animals.
“In terms of fish behaviour and physiology, it’s negative responses across the board,” said Kieran Cox, a doctoral student at the University of Victoria.
Cox and fish ecologist, Francis Juanes, led the collaborative team that conducted the research, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Global Change Biology.
They reviewed 42 studies involving human-caused