Abstract
On 16 October, as many as 310 participants engaged on-line in the second of three full days of Synthesis of the Science (SoS) on interactions between offshore wind development and fisheries. The second day concluded oceanographic and biological topics by discussing zooplankton and phytoplankton. The reminder of the day was dedicated to socio-economic issues. An introductory keynote was presented by Merlin Jackson from the United Kingdom’s Thanet Fishermen’s Association
For a second full day agenda was broken out into panel or speaker presentations, followed by questions and answers. Such Q&A was conducted verbally, via the Chat function in Zoom, and via an on-line tool called Mentimeter. The results of all such dialogue are captured below for the plenary discussions and additional written comments are captured in an appendix for all comments made in the Chat or Mentimeter. A glossary of acronyms is also included in an appendix.
The substantive topics covered on this day included:
- Fishing operation effects
- Economic effects
- Socio-cultural effects
- Cumulative impacts, resilience and adaptation
The day also included several breakout discussions. The first breakout topics included:
- Sharing the Ports: Evaluating Challenges and Opportunities
- Focus on Floating: Different Structures, Different Conditions
- Integrating Fisheries and Wildlife, RWSE, and ROSA
- Dock to Plate: Market Considerations
- Safety at Sea
The second breakout topics included:
- New Fisheries, New Entrants, New Gear? The Realities of Adaptation
- Perspectives from Small Communities
- Perspectives from Vertically Integrated Businesses
- What’s Perception Got to Do With It? Socioeconomic Research, “Stakeholder & Rightsholder Engagement,” and Participatory Governance
- Case Study: Cumulative Socioeconomic Approaches to Understanding Effort Displacement