Figure 3.91: Fishing is a mainstay of life in Røst, one of the remote Lofoten Islands north of the Arctic Circle, near the test area chosen for the NPD survey.
perfected, so that streamers can be towed at greater depths where ambient ocean noise is less, thereby perhaps accomplishing seismic shooting with lower decibels of sound.
3.12.5 The Fish Rock Experiment
Although behavioural studies of fish suggest that there might be some changes in behaviour associated with seismic surveying,
a study by Wardle et al., 2001, found results to the contrary. Bangs did not chase fish away, but they did cause an involuntary sudden bending of the body, or C-starts (see box overleaf). Te investigators used a video system to examine the
behaviour of fish on an inshore rocky reef, ‘Fish Rock’ in Firemore Bay, Loch Ewe, on the west coast of Scotland, in response to shooting a stationary triple G. airgun (three
