Public Consultation on Marine Noise: Add Your Two Cents!

Fisheries and Oceans Canada is organizing a public consultation on the impact of noise in Canada’s oceans, and you are invited to give your opinion.

Subsequent to the recent release of its framework document on an ocean noise strategy, the Government of Canada is currently inviting any member of an organization, business, or the general public to provide comments on this discussion paper. Any feedback gathered will be used to define the next steps in developing this strategy.

The issue of underwater noise is important for marine mammals. Highly reliant on sound to communicate, move, eat and socialize, cetaceans are particularly sensitive to noise disturbance. Noise pollution is one of the threats to the future of whales, and is considered a major threat to the St. Lawrence beluga in particular.