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    "name": "2013, Precision Marine Survey, Westermost Rough, Fish and Shellfish Monitoring",
    "description": "The UK government actively supports the development of renewable energy sources, with offshore\r\nwind farms (OWF) being its\u2019 primary focus. The Holderness Coast fishery, in the North East coast of\r\nthe England, is situated in an area of significant OWF construction. This study focused on the\r\nWestermost Rough OWF development. It aimed to contribute to an attempt to address deficiencies in\r\nthe current state of knowledge of the effects of OWFs on fish and shellfish populations, by providing a\r\nbaseline of pre-construction data. The survey was designed to accurately model local fishing practices\r\nand to avoid the shortcomings of some other OWF monitoring programs, by employing \u201ctreatment\u201d\r\n(physically affected by construction activity) and \u201ccontrol\u201d (undisturbed) sampling locations. Four fleets\r\nof lobster pots were used to collect samples. One treatment fleet was deployed on the planned cable\r\nroute and a second in the turbine array site. A control fleet was positioned at least 1000m to the North\r\nof each treatment fleet, outside of the planned construction location. Each fleet was hauled\r\napproximately every 3 days, between July and September 2013. Sex, abundance, size, condition and\r\novigerous status of individuals of the key commercial species Homarus gammarus, Cancer pagurus\r\nand Necora puber were recorded for the entire catch. There were few differences between the\r\ntreatment and control fleets. Size and abundance varied between sexes and between the inshore and\r\noffshore areas, with lager animals predominantly located offshore. Lobsters showed a high abundance\r\nof individuals that were healthy or soft shelled; whilst edible crab had a high abundance of individuals\r\nwith \u2018Black Spot Disease\u2019. The fishery within Westermost Rough focuses on the abundant, high value\r\nlobster, while there is a larger, but diseased and therefore lower value edible crab population. The\r\nstudy provided a highly detailed baseline data set, which will enable direct comparison to postconstruction\r\nmonitoring. It is to be hoped that this will support the already productive relationship\r\nbetween OWF developers and the fishing industry. The minutes from a steering group meeting\r\ndiscussing the results, quality and future monitoring are included.",
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