Report on Passive Acoustic Underwater Monitoring Data and Potential Sources of Noise in Relation to a Mass Stranding of Long-Finned Pilot Whales (Globicephala melas) on Isle of Lewis, July 2023
Underwater sounds have been shown to injure or disturb cetaceans, and around the world, cases have been documented of cetacean mass strandings that have been linked to underwater noise, across many species. The Scottish Government’s Marine...