Dear ROSA Community,
I hope this message finds you doing well. I am writing today to provide you with information about the symposium that ROSA will be co-hosting at The American Fisheries Society (AFS)’s Annual Meeting this summer. We are seeking abstracts for presentations and hope that you will participate if you are interested. Details follow.
Abstracts Sought for AFS Annual Meeting Symposium
ROSA and colleagues are soliciting abstracts for a symposium titled Offshore Wind, Fish, and Fisheries – Emerging Knowledge and Applications that they will host at the AFS Annual Meeting August 21-25. Co-conveners of this symposium include: the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Tetra Tech, and the Responsible Offshore Development Alliance.
The symposium will examine interactions of fixed and floating offshore wind with fish and fisheries throughout the U.S. -- including ecological, socioeconomic, and fisheries management dimensions -- during planning, construction, operation, and decommissioning of offshore wind projects. The planning team is pursuing options to make this year’s symposium hybrid and synchronous, which would allow for both remote and live participation.
Presentations may address (but are not limited to):
- emerging ecological, socio-economic, and socio-cultural research
- innovative methods for assessment
- scale considerations
- current regulatory processes
- cooperative research
- management practices
- empirical research
- laboratory investigations
- modeling
- monitoring design
- survey recommendations
Of particular interest are presentations that share knowledge and lessons learned from European and U.S. Atlantic coast offshore wind experience that can inform co-existence of wind and fisheries.
Last year’s AFS Annual Meeting symposium Interactions Between Offshore Wind, Fisheries, and Fisheries Resources, co-hosted by ROSA and colleagues, resulted in 30 presentations, panels, and posters. Recordings of many of these are available on the ROSA website.
