Scientific Resources
Scientific Groups
BOEM funds and manages scientific research to inform their decision making processes for renewable energy projects on the Outer Continental Shelf.
ICES’ Working Group on Offshore Wind Development and Fisheries (WGOWDF) focuses on the interactions between fisheries and offshore wind energy.
Weighing both the possible risks and the potential for benefits at a global scale, New York State is committed to developing offshore wind in a responsible way that considers a variety of impacts and attempts to mitigate them.
RWSE supports research and monitoring on wildlife and offshore wind energy.
ROSA founded in 2019, is a nonprofit organization that seeks to advance regional research and monitoring of fisheries and offshore wind interactions through collaboration and cooperation.
SCEMFIS utilizes academic, recreational and commercial fishery resources to address presently urgent and emerging scientific problems that could limit sustainable fisheries.
Scientific Reports
The aim of the ICES Workshop on Socio-Economic Implications of Offshore Wind on Fishing Communities (WKSEIOWFC) was to develop a framework to define the socio-economic effects and impacts of offshore wind on fishing behaviour, fishing communities and coastal communities more broadly.
Overview of NOAA Fisheries regulatory authority, interests and ongoing work on the interaction of offshore wind development, fish resources and fisheries.
NOAA Fisheries developed reports summarizing fishing activity from 2008-2018 within each offshore wind lease or project area along the U.S. Atlantic Coast.
This special issue of Oceanography, Understanding the Effects of Offshore Wind Development on Fisheries, provides an overview of what has been learned from research and monitoring of offshore wind farm impacts on fisheries resources.