Advancing Innovative Convergence Between Fisheries and Offshore Energy to Drive Adaptive Stewardship of Fisheries Habitat in a Dynamic Blue Economy

推进渔业与海上能源之间的创新融合，推动动态蓝色经济中渔业栖息地的适应性管理

• 批准号: 49100421C0039
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: BLUE LATITUDES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Contract
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-15 至 2022-09-14
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=49100421C0039&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Advancing; Innovative; Convergence; Between; Fisheries

For decades, fisheries and offshore energy in the Gulf of Mexico have developed concurrently, with offshore oil and gas platforms providing fisheries habitats and fishing opportunities for many commercial and recreational fishers. This project will quantify how fisheries use the highly productive artificial reef ecosystems found on offshore oil and gas platforms and produce tools to better understand the impacts of future offshore development (e.g., wind installations) on fisheries. This project will establish the framework for an ecological-economic fisheries model that integrates spatial data from commercial and recreational fisheries and data from ecological parameters, including diversity, abundance, and connectivity, to realize the direct and indirect value that offshore platforms provide for fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. The goal is to facilitate decision-making for decommissioning and future offshore energy development that considers the ecological, economic, and social implications of the removal or addition of artificial structures on fisheries. The broader impacts of this project will improve sustainable use of fisheries resources for economic growth, create streamlined pathways to capitalize on existing ocean resources, and improve interactions between disconnected ocean-related sectors in the Blue Economy, while also providing educational opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico region.

几十年来，墨西哥湾的渔业和近海能源同时发展，近海石油和天然气平台为许多商业和娱乐渔民提供了渔业栖息地和捕鱼机会。该项目将量化渔业如何利用海上石油和天然气平台上的高产人工礁生态系统，并制作工具，以更好地了解未来海上开发的影响（例如，风力发电设施）。 该项目将建立生态经济渔业模型框架，该模型将商业和休闲渔业的空间数据与生态参数数据（包括多样性、丰度和连通性）相结合，以实现近海平台为墨西哥湾渔业提供的直接和间接价值。其目标是促进退役和未来海上能源开发的决策，考虑拆除或增加人工结构对渔业的生态，经济和社会影响。该项目的更广泛影响将改善渔业资源的可持续利用以促进经济增长，创造利用现有海洋资源的简化途径，并改善蓝色经济中与海洋相关的部门之间的互动，同时还为墨西哥湾地区提供教育机会。