{"id":4895,"date":"2014-06-23T10:27:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2015-04-02T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T18:54:51","slug":"wind-energy-area-socioeconomic-study-on-fisheries-exposure-nears-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wind-energy-area-socioeconomic-study-on-fisheries-exposure-nears-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind Energy Area socioeconomic study on fisheries \u2018exposure\u2019 nears completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTAUK, NY \u2013 At the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council\u2019s April 8-10 meeting here, A. Justin Kirkpatrick and Sharon Benjamin from the National Marine Fisheries Service\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 A draft report titled \u201cThe Socioeconomic Impact of Outer Continental Shelf Wind Development on Fishing\u201d is due out this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Kirkpatrick, an economist, and Benjamin, a geographic information systems analyst, explained that they compiled vessel trip report (VTR) data and matched it with vessel observer records for the six-year period 2007 to 2012 in order to map fishing effort from Maine to North Carolina.\u00a0 The goal was to identify the fishing industry\u2019s \u201cexposure\u201d to development in BOEM\u2019s nine wind energy areas (WEAs).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExposure\u201d doesn\u2019t necessarily mean impact.\u00a0 Instead, Kirkpatrick explained, the term is used to identify any permit holder or group that receives revenue from fishing in or near the WEAs.<\/p>\n<p>Exposure also differs from impact because some fishermen will be able to continue fishing in or around WEAs after a wind farm is constructed, while others may choose not to fish there or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"CFN_7_14cover\" src=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/CFN_7_14cover-243x300.jpg\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read the rest and much, much more in the\u00a0July issue of Commercial Fisheries News.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read online\u00a0immediately and download for future reference.<\/p>\n<p>[add_to_cart=4864]<\/p>\n<div id=\"ninja-children-wrap\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTAUK, NY \u2013 At the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council\u2019s April 8-10 meeting here, A. Justin Kirkpatrick and Sharon Benjamin from the National Marine Fisheries Service\u2019s 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wind-energy-area-socioeconomic-study-on-fisheries-exposure-nears-completion\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-july-14","category-wind-energy","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fish-news.com\/cfn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}