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Socioeconomic Impacts of Atlantic Offshore Wind Development
May 24, 2021
Reports summarizing previous fishing activity within each offshore wind lease or project area.
NOAA Fisheries developed reports summarizing fishing activity from 2008-2018 within each offshore wind lease or project area along the U.S. Atlantic Coast (for more information on individual offshore wind leases, see Bureau of Ocean Energy Management website). For commercial fishing trips, these reports highlight annualized landings and revenue by species, gear type, and fishery management plan within each area, as well as revenue by port and vessel dependence upon operations in each area. Party/charter reports highlight annualized kept catch by species and management category (a proxy for fishery management plan), annualized revenue based on passenger fees and number of anglers per trip, annualized vessel and angler trips by port, and vessel/angler dependence upon operations in each area. Both reports can be used to help identify the major species harvested, affected fishery operations, potential revenue impacted, and ports affected by offshore wind development in each area. Such information can help prepare fisheries monitoring plans and socioeconomic impact analysis.
The commercial fishing summaries are based on combining data from vessel trip reports (logbooks) and dealer reports submitted by those issued a permit for managed species in federal waters (i.e., outside of three nautical miles from shore). The methods used to determine area fished for each trip from logbook data are similar to those used to develop our Fishing Footprints page. The party/charter fishing summaries are based on combining kept catch and angler data from logbooks submitted by vessels issued a federal party/charter permit with the average annual angler fee per state derived from periodic NOAA surveys of party/charter operators (see Lovell et al., 2020).
This project is a joint effort of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (Dr. Geret DePiper, Dennis Corvi, Marina Chaji), NOAA’s Office of Science and Technology (Dr. Eric Thunberg), and the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (Douglas Christel, Benjamin Galuardi). For more information about these reports or fisheries issues associated with offshore wind development, please contact Doug Christel.
Lease or Project Area (Lease number)
Updated May 18, 2021
Massachusetts/Rhode Island
Bay State Wind 1 (0500)
Bay State Wind 2 (0500 remainder)
Beacon Wind (0520)
Deepwater Wind (0487)
Liberty Wind 1 (0522)
Liberty Wind 2 (0522 remainder)
- Commercial
- Party/Charter - An insufficient number of trips is available at this time to generate the report.
Mayflower Wind 1 (0521)
- Commercial
- Party/Charter - An insufficient number of trips is available at this time to generate the report.
Mayflower Wind 2 (0521 remainder)
Revolution Wind (0486)
Vineyard Wind 1 (0501)
Park City Wind (0501 remainder)
New York
Empire Wind (0512)
South Fork Wind (0517)
Sunrise Wind (0487)
New Jersey
Atlantic Shores Wind (0499)
Ocean Wind 1 (0498)
Ocean Wind 2 (0498 remainder)
Boardwalk Wind (0512)
Delaware
Garden State Offshore Energy I (0482)
Skipjack Wind I (0519)
Skipjack Wind II (0519 remainder)
Maryland
US Wind 1 (0490)
US Wind 2 (0490 remainder)
Virginia
Commonwealth of Virginia Research (0497)- This area is too small to support a report for either commercial or party/charter trips.
Dominion Wind (0483)
North Carolina
Kitty Hawk Wind (0508)
Commercial Fisheries Data Download Website
The Commercial Fisheries Data Download Website allows users to download commercial fisheries landings and revenue data by year, species, fishery management plan, and wind energy area. These data are the same as those used to generate the commercial fisheries reports above.