TY - JOUR
TI - A synthesis of socioeconomic and sociocultural indicators for assessing the impacts of offshore renewable energy on fishery participants and fishing communities
AU - Willis-Norton, E
AU - Mangin, T
AU - Schroeder, D
AU - Cabral, R
AU - Gaines, S
T2 - Marine Policy
AB - Offshore renewable energy, particularly wind farms, is rapidly expanding globally and has become an essential component of many coastal nations’ decarbonization plans, including the United States. The addition of these physical structures to the marine space may impact fish production and may preclude fishers from traditional fishing grounds - both of which have the potential to affect fisheries outcomes. Understanding the socioeconomic and sociocultural impacts of implementing offshore wind is crucial to determining appropriate mitigation strategies and to developing data collection, monitoring, and adaptive management strategies. This review synthesizes quantitative and qualitative indicators that have been used to assess the impact of fisheries preclusion and shifts in fished species’ biomass on fishery participants. By providing a description of the indicator, a list of the datasets required to calculate its value, and a list of studies that used the indicator, this review can serve as a guide to those designing monitoring plans to determine socioeconomic and sociocultural offshore wind impacts.
DA - 2024/02//
PY - 2024
VL - 161
SP - 106013
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X24000113
DO - 10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106013 
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Floating Offshore Wind
KW - Displacement
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Fisheries
KW - Social & Economic Data
ER -