Offshore windfarms - monitoring impacts on the commercial fishing industry: good practice guidance
Good practice guidance for offshore wind developers on how to monitor the impacts of offshore wind farms on the commercial fishing industry. This includes how to identify appropriate monitoring datasets, develop monitoring methodologies and to identify the best means of disseminating outputs.
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1 Fish and Fisheries Specialist Receptor Group webpage
2 Social and Economic Specialist Receptor Group webpage
3 An overview of OWF types can be found in Appendix F.
4 Commercial fisheries (or fisheries) are defined as legal fishing activity undertaken for commercial profit. Individual fisheries or fleets are defined as a group of vessels operating the same (or similar) gear and targeting the same target species groups within the same area of operation. An overview of common Scottish fishing practices can be found in Appendix E.
5 Scotland’s National Marine Plan
6 Fish and Fisheries Specialist Receptor Group webpage
7 Social and Economic Specialist Receptor Group webpage
8 Although it is recommended that stakeholder engagement is initiated through local representatives, it is acknowledged that not all fishing vessels are a member of a representative body. Therefore, it is recommended to engage with individuals where required to ensure fishers that are not members of representative bodies are also represented.
9 Cefas Climate Change Publication
10 Paper from the Houses of Parliament Paper from the Houses of Parliament
12 Fisheries Statistics webpage
13 Note that value may change over time due to inflation and other impacts.
14 Compliance data refers to adherence to regulations, licensing, and sustainable practices within the fishing industry and can be obtained from Marine Directorate
15 Marine Directorate Marine Social Attitudes: Survey.
16 Magenta Book
17 Final deliverables for each work package under the project sourced from MASTS website
18 Magenta Book
19 The regulator should decide the purpose and aims of monitoring based on the Central Government Guidance on evaluation. Source: Magenta Book website
20 The array area represents the area of an OWF within which the Wind Turbine Generators (WTGs) and associated infrastructure are located.
21 Please note this is a hypothetical example and these stakeholders are purely examples.
22 ScotMER Fish and Fisheries Specialist Receptor Group
23 ScotMER Social and Economic Specialist Receptor Group
24 Appendix B of the Good Practice Guidance “Monitoring Offshore Windfarm Impacts on the Commercial Fishing Industry”
25 A rapid review is a form of knowledge synthesis that accelerates the process of conducting a traditional systematic review through streamlining or omitting a variety of methods to produce evidence in a resource-efficient manner” (Garritty et al, 2021).
26 Beatrice, Robin Rigg, Hywind, Aberdeen Bay, Kincardine FOW, Moray East, and Seagreen
27 Neart na Gaoithe, Inchcape, and Moray West
31 Details on regional VMS requirements are available here: NOAA website
32 ScotMER Fish and Fisheries Specialist Receptor Group website
33 ScotMER Social and Economic Specialist Receptor Group
34 Appendix B of the Good Practice Guidance “Monitoring Offshore Windfarm Impacts on the Commercial Fishing Industry”
36 National Infrastructure Planning
37 EDF Renewables UK and Ireland, 2018.
38 Moray Offshore Windfarm (West) Limited, 2018
39 Moray Offshore Renewables Limited, 2019.
40 Seagreen Wind Energy, 2018
41 BOWL, 2012.
42 Pentland Floating Offshore windfarm, 2022
43 Hywind Scotland Pilot Park, Environmental Statement (ES), 2015
44 OWPL, 2023
45 Principle Power, 2015
46 ScottishPower Renewables, 2019
47 Ørsted, 2018
48 Ørsted, 2022
49 SSER, 2022
50 MeyGen Ltd, 2012
51 Further information available at: Crown Estate website
52 Type 1 multipliers sum together direct (e.g. economic impacts to businesses directly impacted) and indirect (e.g. supply chain impacts caused by the change in businesses directly impacted) impacts (Scottish Government, 2019).
53 The Marine Attitude Survey was conducted in 2018 to collect and analyse data from Scottish residents on the marine environment through an online questionnaire.
54 Final deliverables for each work package under the project sourced from MASTS website
55 In Scotland, fishing vessel licences are issued by Marine Scotland, on behalf of Scottish Ministers, and are issued to vessels registered in Scotland. All seagoing vessels registered in the UK are assigned to a specific class, which defines their type of permitted use.
56 For the purposes of this guidance, displacement is defined as occurring as a result of other licenced activity or infrastructure.
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