TY - JOUR
TI - Decision Bias in Marine Spatial Planning of Offshore Wind Farms: Problems of Singular Versus Cumulative Assessments of Economic Impacts on Fisheries
AU - Berkenhagen, J
AU - Döring, R
AU - Fock, H
AU - Kloppmann, M
AU - Pedersen, S
AU - Schulze, T
T2 - Marine Policy
AB - The current approval procedure for wind farm proposals in the German EEZ only considers site specific conflict analysis between the wind farm and fisheries. Due to the relatively small spatial coverage of the sites potential opportunity losses to the fisheries are always considered as low or negligible. Cumulative effects on fisheries that will occur once all proposed wind farms are in place are not yet considered adequately. However, those cumulative effects will be quite substantial because, in particular, opportunities to catch such valuable species as flatfish will be considerably reduced.
DA - 2010/05//
PY - 2010
VL - 34
IS - 3
SP - 733
EP - 736
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X09001900
DO - 10.1016/j.marpol.2009.12.004
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Fixed Offshore Wind
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Fisheries
KW - Marine Spatial Planning
ER -