Overview of Southern New England Wind Energy Areas: MA, RIMA, NY WEAs

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1 NOAA NOAA FISHERIES SERVICE Science, Service, Stewardship Overview of Southern New England Wind Energy Areas: MA, RIMA, NY WEAs Vincent G. Guida and the BOEM Benthic Habitat Team US DOC, NOAA, NMFS, NEFSC J.J. Howard Laboratory Highlands (Sandy Hook), NJ Contact: SDG

2 NEFSC BOEM HABITAT TEAM & COLABORATORS NEFSC team: Vince Guida Richard Langton, Jennifer Samson, Donna Johnson, Amy Drohan, Jennifer McHenry, Heather Welch, Steven Fromm, DeMond Timmons, Victoria Kentner, Jonathan Brink, Lt jg Erick Estela-Gomez, Jeffrey Pessutti, John Rosendale, Peter Plantamura, Harvey Walsh, Jordan Gilruth, Ashok Deshpande, Delan Boyce, Ehren Habeck, Liza Baskin Collaborators: Kevin Stokesbury UMASS SMAST Scott Gallager Wood Hole Oceanographic Institution SDG

3 BOEM Northeast Regional Wind Energy Areas (WEAs) PA NJ NY CT NY RI MA continental shelf Southern New England WEAs DE MD VA VA NC

4 Rhode Island Sound Buzzards Bay Martha s Vineyard Nantucket Block Island RIMA WEA ~165,000 acres MA WEA ~750,000 acres Massachusetts WEA

5 NY-NJ Harbor New Jersey NY WEA ~82,000 acres

6 Rhode Island Sound Nantucket Sound WEA Subdivision: Four MA WEA Lease Areas Nantucket Shoals

7 WEA Subdivision: Two RIMA WEA Lease Areas

8 Physical Habitat Sediments Topography Bathymetry Oceanography

9 Topography and 50 m Limit 50 m 50 m 50 m 50 m 50 m

10 Topography and 50 m Limit OCS-A-0486 Cox Ledge 50 m OCS-A-0487

11 Topography

12 Geological Setting: Glacial Morains RIMA WEA OCS-A-0486 OCS-A-0487 SAMP Ch 2,

13 MA WEA Sediment Distribution from grab samples: Sand Dominated in depths <50 m

14 MA WEA Sediment Distribution from UMASS SMAST photos: Sand & Silt: no gravel, boulder or rock

15 RIMA WEA Sediment Distribution from grab samples: Sand-dominated, some mud, some gravel

16 RIMA WEA Sediment Distribution from UMASS SMAST photos: Sand & Silt with gravel, cobble, boulder and rock

17 NY WEA Sediment Distribution from grab samples: Sand: little gravel or mud

18 RIMA WEA Sediment Distribution from UMASS SMAST photos: Sand & Silt: no gravel, cobble, boulder and rock CB

19 Temperature (deg C) Seasonal Water Column Temperature Cycles: MA WEA Surface and Bottom Water Temperatures and Gradients plotted by date: neg T grad bot pos T grad mean surf T mean bot T 0 Dec Feb Apr May Jul Sep Oct Dec 16

20 NEFSC Survey Otter Trawl Net Aboard R/V Delaware II V. Guida, NOAA Large Net, Coarse Mesh, High Speed, Cookies to avoid scraping bottom

21 NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey MA WEA Trawl Locations

22 NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey MA WEA Catch Numbers Other taxa Other taxa

23 NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey MA WEA Catch Weights Other taxa Other taxa

24 NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey MA WEA Catch Frequency

25 NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey MA WEA and Benthic Survey 2014 Warm Season (Fall) Trawls: 81 taxa, 33 managed Cold Season (Winter Spring) Trawls: 71 taxa, 31 managed Some dominant in weight, some in numbers, some in frequency, some in all three categories Also, 151 taxa of benthic infauna from grab samples, and 58 taxa of benthic epifauna from beam trawls Which are most vulnerable to disturbance from Offshore Wind Development?

26 Some Criteria for Vulnerability Consideration: 1. Managed species: there is no mandate to protect nonmanaged species on an individual basis unless perhaps they are proven to be essential for ecosystem integrity, AND 2. Species that are habitat-limited by relatively rare habitat types (e.g. highly structured bottom types), OR 3. Species with a life stage that is immobile or nearly so: mobile species can move out of the way, AND 4. Species that are habitat engineers, creating habitats for managed species.

27 List of Species Meeting these Criteria 1. Atlantic cod (cold season) Habitat-Limited by relatively rare rock-boulder-cobble habitat 2. Black sea bass (warm season) Habitat-Limited by relatively rare structured bottom 3. Shellfish (year-round) Relatively immobile: Atlantic surfclam, Ocean quahog, Atlantic sea scallop 4. Longfin squid (warm season) Egg mops are immobile.

28 Longfin Inshore Squid Egg Mop NOAA: Teachers at Sea blog Wikipedia Longfin Inshore Squid, Doryteuthis pealeii, formerly Loligo pealeii

29 Cod caught in the last 14 years

30 Cod caught in the previous 14 years OCS-A-486 OCS-A m

31 NO ATLANTIC COD CAUGHT IN NY WEA SINCE 2003

32 Black Sea Bass Caught in the Last 14 years Goode 1884 RIMA WEA OCS-A-0500 MA WEA

33 Black sea bass caught in the last 14 years Goode 1884 Beam Trawls, summer 2016 only

34 Shellfish caught in the last 14 years

35 Shellfish caught in the last 14 years

36 Shellfish caught in the last 14 years

37 NO LONGFIN SQUID EGG MOPS CAUGHT IN MA OR RIMA WEA IN MARCH, 2014 BEAM TRAWLS

38 Longfin squid egg mops caught in August, 2016 Wikipedia

39 Suggested Questions-Discussion 1. Should we be concerned with other groups of organisms, e.g. non-managed or mobile species? 2. Should we be concerned with species present that are outside of their curren EFH footprints? 3. Your questions..

40 SUPPLEMENTARY SLIDES

41 Sea Scallop EFH Sea Scallop EFH: all life stages

42 Ocean Quahog EFH Ocean Quahog EFH: all life stages

43 Atlantic Surfclam EFH Surfclam EFH: all life stages

44 Atlantic Cod EFH

45 Black Sea Bass EFH

46 Longfin Squid Egg Mop EFH NC-KH WEA After Hatfield & Cadrin 2002

47 American Lobster Caught in the Last 14 years RIMA WEA OCS-A-0500 MA WEA

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