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Atlantic Offshore Renewable Energy Development and Fisheries: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
Atlantic Offshore Renewable Energy Development and Fisheries: Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief
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In his remarks, Bennett highlighted the need to balance the environmental and economic benefits offshore wind can bring through renewable energy and job creation, while conserving valuable existing ocean uses. INTRODUCTION TO FISHERIES IMPACTS AND RESEARCH NEEDS IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND Concerns about intensifying the use of marine resources in the state of Rhode Island, including expectations for offshore wind development, led to the creation of a comprehensive spatial plan in the federal and state waters off Rhode 1 Environmental studies conducted to inform BOEM's Office of Renewable Energy Programs can be found at https://www.boem.gov/ Renewable-Energy-Environmental-Studies.
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During the wind farm operation phase, possible impacts include alterations to habitat from scouring, sedimentation, and the creation of artificial reefs, which could drive changes in fish communities; oceanographic changes in upwelling/downwelling that could redistribute food sources or larval transport; the creation of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) around cables that could influence fish behavior; and the potential for continued exclusions of fishing vessels from the wind farms.
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that the species is a "habitat engineer" that creates habitats for managed species. His resulting list of species based on these criteria are Atlantic cod and black sea bass due to their habitat limitations, shellfish (Atlantic surfclam, ocean quahog, and Atlantic sea scallops)
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David Monti, a charter captain, fishing guide, and Vice President of the Rhode Island Saltwater Angler's Association, pointed out that fishing has been productive at the Block Island Wind Farm and has attracted many fishing boats; mussels have grown on the platforms and fish such as summer flounder and black sea bass have been prevalent in the area. However, he also noted that localized increases in fishing effort could have their own impact on the environment.
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Bay State Wind lease, currently uses trawls to fish for monkfish and skate and agreed with the concern that some fishing gear would not be safe in the wind farms. Lapp identified signal interference with vessel radar as another safety issue caused by wind turbines.6 This would be a problem for navigating in low visibility conditions and could impair Coast Guard search-and-rescue operations.
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Under this program, priorities are identified by scientists with stakeholder input and competitive research proposals are subject to technical and management review. He noted that BOEM could set up a similar structure to fund fisheries monitoring in wind farms, using funds paid by the lessees.
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WIND FARM CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS The final session of the first day covered ideas about how fishery data and priorities can be used to inform the development of wind farms within established lease areas. Malcolm Spaulding from the University of Rhode Island described the model he worked on as part of the Ocean SAMP process to optimize the siting of wind farms and individual wind turbines.
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. Environmental impacts of offshore wind farms in the Belgian part of the North Sea: Learning from the past to optimise future monitoring programmes.
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Gopu Potty from the University of Rhode Island described his work modeling the propagation of sound waves from wind platforms, which takes the form of acoustic pressure and particle motion, and commented on how this information can contribute to understanding the effects of sound on fish. Pile driving during construction of wind turbines is a complex source of sound; the noise propagates and attenuates through both the water and sediment and also creates waves at the interface of the two, known as Scholte waves or ground rolls.
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annually and, on average, has been decreasing since the 1800s. He emphasized that in this context, wind farms are seen by the fishing industry as yet another constraint on fishing.
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Some attendees also raised the importance of using monitoring programs to ultimately inform decision making. C ohen noted that the question of what the impacts to fisheries will be is partly a biological one, but also a management question dependent on how wind farms may be sited and what fishery access rules will be.
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Beal, Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission; Eleanor Bochenek, Rutgers University Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory; Andrew Gill, PANGALIA Environmental; Annette Grilli, University of Rhode Island; Eileen Hofmann, Old Dominion University; William T Hogarth, Florida Institute of Oceanography (Retired)
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