MONTAUK, N.Y. — June 23, 2014 — At the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council’s April 8-10 meeting here, A. Justin Kirkpatrick and Sharon Benjamin from the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center presented spatial and revenue analyses that will help the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) evaluate the impacts of offshore wind farms on fisheries.
That data is now being coupled with fishing industry input gathered by BOEM over the last couple of years during workshops on mitigation measures to help inform the environmental review process for wind farm development. A draft report titled “The Socioeconomic Impact of Outer Continental Shelf Wind Development on Fishing” is due out this summer.
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