Welcome to the FishFORWRD Database
Developed in Partnership by ROSA, Attentive Energy, and WSP
FishFORWRD | Fish and Fisheries OffshoRe Wind Database
- FishFORWRD is a catalog of all East Coast research, monitoring efforts, programs and stated research needs for offshore wind, fish, and fisheries.
- Included are research and monitoring funded specifically to understand offshore wind potential effects on fish and fisheries.
- The Research Gaps Analysis tab creates a common understanding of progress made and research still needed to understand the impacts of offshore wind on fish and fisheries on the U.S. East Coast.
- The objective of FishFORWRD is to increase awareness of ongoing work, avoid duplication of efforts, and create a common understanding of research needs. This tool is meant for research funders, fisheries and offshore wind researchers, offshore wind developers, and the public.
Explanation of Tabs
Research Projects & Needs: View completed and ongoing projects with high level attributes. This includes funded research and implemented offshore wind developer Fisheries Monitoring Plans. Interact with raw data and download database directly to your local computer. Find term definitions and references.
Research Gaps Analysis: Explore how research and monitoring projects are addressing research needs.
Submit Project: Submit information to update and improve FishFORWRD.
Total Project Count
240
Research Categories
11
Total Unique Research Needs
72
81
Funding Entities
36
Methodologies Employed
19
For support, issue reporting, or for features you’d like to see - contact: info@rosascience.org. This dashboard was last published: 2025-10-24 Version 2.2.0
Responsible Offshore Science Alliance. (2025). Fish and Fisheries Offshore Wind Research Database (FishFORWRD). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17407180
This view displays the results of ROSA’s Research Gaps Analysis.
- On the left, you’ll find the full list of Summarized Research Needs (SRN) organized by research category. Filter the Score to NOT ADDRESSED to view research gaps. Note: Some SRNs marked as UNDER EXPLORATION may still have unmet needs, such as for specific receptors and locations.
- Below, you’ll see all Explored Research Needs — needs that are currently being addressed by ongoing or completed projects. Match your SRN of interest on the left to the corresponding SRN on the below to see how specific needs are being explored and by which projects.
Learn more about the Research Gaps Analysis process here .
Submit Information to the FishFORWRD Database
Use the following links to send project information, research needs, or corrections.
Your submission will be QA/QC'ed and added to the database during our next biannual update.
Additional Resources
See the links provided below for additional resources.
ROSA Regional Research Coordination
FishFORWRD is just one of ROSA’s tools and resources aimed to bridge gaps in knowledge, promote efficient resource use, and create shared frameworks for research and data management. This page holds more tools, resources and programs to promote regional coordination.
ROSA Data Governance Program
Looking for data? ROSA is currently building its Data Governance Program to create guidance and support data sharing with consistent policies, processes, data standards, and workflows that can be used by everyone in the data ecosystem. This webpage will hold the most up to date information.
RWSC Research Planning Map
RWSC and ROSA are in the process of developing and populating a web-based map to support offshore wind research planning. The Research Planning Map will display the locations of ongoing offshore wind research activities in U.S. Atlantic waters, including the locations of deployed sensors, survey transects, seafloor mapping footprints, and more.
RWSC Offshore Wind and Wildlife Research Database
This database holds research projects and data collection activities on wildlife. Specifically marine mammals, birds & bats, sea turtles, habitat & ecosystem, protected fish species.
Tethys Knowledge Base for Fish
This knowledge base provides access to documents and information from around the world about the environmental effects of wind energy. This link filters these results to “Fish.”
NYSERDA Mitigation Practices Database Tool
This tool is a searchable database of potential mitigation practices that may be relevant to avoiding, minimizing, offsetting and restoring potential effects of offshore wind energy development on wildlife, the environment, and fisheries.