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Vincent G. Guida and the BOEM Benthic Habitat Team
US DOC, NOAA, NMFS, NEFSC
J.J. Howard Laboratory
Highlands (Sandy Hook), NJ
NOAA
FISHERIES
SERVICE
NOAA Science, Service, Stewardship
Overview of Southern New England Wind Energy Areas:
MA, RIMA, NY WEAs
Contact: [email protected] SDG
NEFSC BOEM HABITAT TEAM & COLABORATORS
NEFSC team: 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
Vince Guida
NY
NY
CT RI MA
NJ
DE
MD
VA
VA
NC
PA continental shelf
BOEM
Northeast
Regional
Wind
Energy
Areas
(WEAs)
Southern New
England WEAs
Martha’s Vineyard
Nantucket
Massachusetts WEA
Rhode Island Sound
Block Island
Buzzards Bay
RIMA WEA
~165,000 acres
MA WEA
~750,000 acres
New Jersey
NY-NJ
Harbor
NY WEA
~82,000 acres
Rhode Island Sound
Nantucket Shoals
Nantucket Sound
WEA
Subdivision:
Four MA WEA
Lease Areas
WEA
Subdivision:
Two RIMA
WEA Lease
Areas
Physical Habitat
• Sediments
• Topography – Bathymetry
• Oceanography
50 m
50 m
50 m
50 m
50 m
Topography
and 50 m
Limit
Cox Ledge
50 m
OCS-A-0486
OCS-A-0487
Topography
and 50 m
Limit
Topography
OCS-A-0486
OCS-A-0487
Geological Setting: Glacial Morains
SAMP Ch 2,
RIMA WEA
MA WEA Sediment Distribution from
grab samples:
Sand Dominated in depths <50 m
MA WEA Sediment Distribution from
UMASS SMAST photos:
Sand & Silt: no gravel, boulder or rock
RIMA WEA Sediment Distribution from
grab samples:
Sand-dominated, some mud, some gravel
RIMA WEA Sediment Distribution
from UMASS SMAST photos:
Sand & Silt with gravel, cobble, boulder and rock
NY WEA Sediment Distribution from
grab samples:
Sand: little gravel or mud
CB
RIMA WEA Sediment Distribution
from UMASS SMAST photos:
Sand & Silt: no gravel, cobble, boulder and rock
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5
10
15
20
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0.00 50.00 100.00 150.00 200.00 250.00 300.00 350.00
neg T grad
bot
pos T grad
Dec 31 Feb 19 Apr 10 May 30 Jul 19 Sep 07 Oct 27 Dec 16
Tem
per
atu
re (
deg
C)
MA WEASurface and
Bottom Water Temperatures and Gradients
plotted bydate:
2003 -2016
mean surf T
mean bot T
Seasonal Water Column Temperature
Cycles: 2003 - 2016
NEFSC Survey Otter Trawl Net
Aboard R/V Delaware II
Large Net, Coarse Mesh, High Speed, “Cookies” to avoid scraping bottom V. Guida, NOAA
NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey
MA WEA 2003 – 2016
Trawl Locations
NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey
MA WEA 2003 – 2016
Catch Numbers
Other taxa
Other taxa
NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey
MA WEA 2003 – 2016
Catch Weights
Other taxa
Other taxa
NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey
MA WEA 2003 – 2016
Catch Frequency
NEFSC Seasonal Bottom Trawl Survey
MA WEA 2003 – 2016 and Benthic Survey 2014
Which are most vulnerable
to disturbance from Offshore
Wind Development?
• 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
Some Criteria for Vulnerability Consideration:
1. Managed species: there is no mandate to protect non-
managed 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.
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.
Wikipedia
Longfin Inshore Squid, Doryteuthis pealeii, formerly Loligo pealeii
Longfin Inshore Squid Egg Mop NOAA: Teachers at Sea blog
Cod caught in the last 14 years
Cod caught in the previous 14 years
50 m
OCS-A-486
OCS-A-487
NO ATLANTIC COD CAUGHT IN NY WEA SINCE 2003
OCS-A-0500
Goode 1884
MA WEA
RIMA WEA
Black Sea Bass Caught in the Last 14 years
Goode 1884
Black sea bass caught in the last 14 years
Beam Trawls, summer 2016
only
http://www.vishandel.net
Shellfish caught in the last 14 years
http://www.vishandel.net
Shellfish caught in the last 14 years
http://www.vishandel.net
Shellfish caught in the last 14 years
NO LONGFIN SQUID EGG MOPS CAUGHT IN MA OR RIMA WEA IN MARCH, 2014 BEAM TRAWLS
Wikipedia
Longfin squid egg mops caught in August, 2016
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……………………………………..
SUPPLEMENTARY SLIDES
Sea Scallop EFH: all life stages
Sea Scallop EFH
Ocean Quahog EFH: all life stages
Ocean Quahog EFH
Surfclam EFH: all life stages
Atlantic Surfclam EFH
Atlantic Cod EFH
Black Sea Bass EFH
After Hatfield & Cadrin 2002
NC-KH WEA
Longfin Squid Egg Mop EFH
American Lobster Caught in the Last 14 years
http://www.whichfishthisfish.com
MA WEA
RIMA WEA
OCS-A-0500
