Graphite Innovation and Technologies Awarded Contract With Transport Canada
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Graphite Innovation and Technologies (GIT) has been awarded a contract valued at $2,400,000 by Transport Canada to investigate a new technology to help reduce the underwater noise and greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) produced by marine vessels.
Marine mammals and fish use hearing as their primary sense and are highly dependent upon sound for navigation, communication, finding food, reproduction and hazard detection. Underwater noise has steadily been increasing in the ocean environment since the 1950s and is impacting marine fauna. The project will examine means and ways to reduce both underwater noise and GHG emissions from small inshore fishing boats, which are very common in Atlantic Canada and typically affect the coastal soundscape.