This page provides access to the presentations and discussion from the American Fisheries Society (AFS) Annual Meeting where ROSA and other partners co-hosted a symposium, Offshore Wind, Fish, and Fisheries – Emerging Knowledge and Applications. Sections below include: Research Priorities; Lessons Learned; Floating Wind; Monitoring; and Discussion.
*Disclaimer: All files are posted with permission of the authors. For purposes of citation or attribution, please contact authors directly. Only one team of presenters (Ober and Chen) did not respond to repeated requests.
Monitoring
- N. David Bethoney and Brian Gervelis
Revisiting wind farm monitoring surveys in the context of stock assessment (poster)
- Brian Gervelis and N. David Bethoney
Shifts in Techniques for Offshore Wind Fisheries Monitoring
- Shannon O’Leary, Keith Dunton, Jason Adolf, and S. Chin
Environmental DNA Effectively Characterizes Pre-construction Fish Communities at Offshore Wind Sites
- Hannah Verkamp, N. David Bethoney and Carl Huntsberger
Augmenting an offshore wind farm fisheries monitoring survey to incorporate biological condition monitoring (poster)
- Dara Wilber, Lorraine Brown, Matt Griffin, and Drew Carey
Lobster and cancer crab responses to offshore wind farm development in Southern New England
- Douglas Zemeckis – email zemeckis@njaes.rutgers.edu to request
Analysis of New Jersey Migrant Fishes and Shelf-Estuary Connectivity: Implications for Offshore Wind
- Douglas Zemeckis, Jason Morson, Joseph O’Brien, Andre Ascura, and Kevin Wark – email zemeckis@njaes.rutgers.edu to request
Evaluating the Impacts of Windfarm Construction on Structure-Associated Species off New Jersey
Fisheries Impacts
- Matthew Bingham and Jason Kinnell
Evaluating Mitigation Opportunities: Offshore Wind and Scallop Aquaculture
- Yi-Jou Lee, Jhih Syuan Chou, and Cheng Hsin Liao
Potential impacts of offshore wind farm on Taiwan’s coastal gillnet fishery (poster)
- Matthew McPherson, Iliana Chollett, Shay O’Farrell, Larry Perruso
Assessing Commercial Fishery Displacement from Wind Energy in the GoM using Big Data
Research Priorities
- Colleen Brust
Building a diverse, large-scale marine research program to inform responsible offshore wind development in New Jersey
- Caitlin McGarigal and Colleen Brust
From Benthos to Birds: New Jersey’s Offshore Wind Research and Monitoring Initiative (poster)