Assessing Fish and Motile Fauna around Offshore Windfarms Using Stereo Baited Video

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Griffin, Ross A., Robinson, Gary J., West, Ashley, Gloyne-Phillips, Ian T., Unsworth, Richard K. F.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: Research Article; Canicula; Homarus gammarus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4775020/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26934587; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149701

There remains limited knowledge of how offshore windfarm developments influence fish assemblages, particularly at a local scale around the turbine structures. Considering the existing levels of anthropogenic pressures on coastal fish populations it is becoming increasingly important for developers a...