site.btaFirst Underwater Sound Pollution Study in Bulgarian Black Sea Waters

NW 13:18:01 27-04-2015
SN1317NW.114
114 ENVIRONMENT - SEA - UNDERWATER SOUND POLLUTION

First Underwater Sound Pollution
Study in Bulgarian
Black Sea Waters


Varna, on the Black Sea, April 27 (BTA) - Scholars from the
Institute of Oceanology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in
Varna will study the level of noise in the Bulgarian Black Sea
economic zone for the first time. The research is part of a
project presented Monday by the head of the Black Sea Basin
Directorate in Varna, Dessislava Konsoulova.

The funds for its implementation, over 1.3 million leva, have
been provided under the EEA Financial Mechanism. The project
will have a duration of 13 months and has the task to
investigate 11 indicators and improve Black Sea monitoring
mechanisms.

Konsoulova explained that the project is part of the
implementation of the Marine Strategy Directive requiring
improvement of the observation of marine waters from the end of
this year.

A series of tests will be made within the framework of the
project, the aim being to gather up-to-date information about
plankton, diversity of fish species and the number and variety
of sea mammals. Researchers will collect information about the
presence of alien phyto- and zoo-plankton in the Black Sea. The
presence of plastic particles in fish meat will also be studied
for the first time.

The pilot tests will cover the waters between Cape Galata and
Cape Emine./LN/BR

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