The Minister of Transport, the Honourable Omar Alghabra, has announced more than $3.1 million for 22 projects to help reduce the impact of underwater vessel noise. These projects include workshops to identify safe and practical approaches to reducing underwater noise; developing a tool available to all members of the marine industry to predict and implement effective quiet designs into new vessels being built; developing new, real-time tools to track underwater noise released by marine vessels; and developing a tool to detect marine mammals and alert nearby vessels. Projects are funded through Transport Canada’s Quiet Vessel Initiative and builds on previous actions taken to keep the marine ecosystem safe, such as the Whales Initiative.
