Co-location of fisheries and offshore wind farms: Current practices and enabling conditions in the North Sea

Passive fisheries on brown crab, velvet swimming crab and European lobster in Prinses Amalia Wind Park in the North Sea, Netherlands : Establishing a form of co-use fisheries in an Offshore Wind Farm by the project Win-Wind

“…Passive crab-pot-fisheries (gear code FPO) is considered to be a viable option of co-use in OWFs (Cramer et al, 2015, Stelzenmüller et al, 2021, Bonsu et al, 2024. To this extent a policy decision was established to enable an experiment in the at that time existing OWFs (Prinses Amalia Wind Park (PAWP, Figure 1), Luchterduinen and Offshore Wind Farm Egmond aan Zee (OWEZ), Staatscourant It is integrated in the concession area of Hollandse Kust Noord.…”