Offshore Wind and Fisheries: The Science Behind Coexistence

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This document summarizes scientific literature detailing how offshore wind projects can share space with fisheries’ uses of windfarm areas, provide benefits to fisheries, create new opportunities for research, will mitigate limited noise impacts, and how subsea cables can cause minimal impacts to fish. Offshore wind also can increase local biodiversity because of new structures and refuge habitats.

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