Developing Offshore Wind Energy

Fishy Fridays

Weekly spotlight on fisheries science journal articles

 

Jeff Kopaska
AFS Executive Director
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Today’s paper was recently published in Marine & Coastal Fisheries, and is a synthesis article looking at what impacts increasing offshore wind energy development may have on fish and fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico/America. I chose to highlight this article because there is also a symposium at our upcoming AFS Annual Meeting on offshore wind, fish and fisheries. The article provides a great baseline of information on the topic, and identifies priority topic areas for research, and was the result of a multidisciplinary working group convened to address the topic. Since this is an area I am mostly unfamiliar with, I enjoyed the opportunity to learn quite a bit about the topic, and I feel I’m better prepared to understand the talks in the symposium (if I have enough free time to attend). Enjoy!

Science priorities to evaluate the effects of offshore wind energy development on fish and fisheries in the Gulf of America