Retrieved from <a href="https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2011/03/22104736/0" target="_blank">https://www.gov.scot/Publications/2011/03/22104736/0</a> [accessed 09 October 2018] identified the following potential impacts of offshore wind development to commercial fisheries:
Disturbance of mobile species and disruption or damage to habitats, nursery and spawning grounds, direct damage to sessile species (organisms attached to a substrate e.g. mussels), leading to displacement of or reduction in fish and shellfish resources;
Reduction in or loss of access to traditional fishing grounds;
Displacement of activity to existing (less profitable) fishing grounds;
Consequent increase in fishing pressure and competition on alternative available grounds;
Obstruction of navigation routes to and from fishing grounds leading to increased travel times;
Snagging of fishing gear on cables and seabed infrastructure;
Safety issues for fishing vessels in transiting wind farm arrays or in diverting around them; and
Potential reduced Catch Per Unit EffortiThe quantity of fish caught (in number or in weight) with one standard unit of fishing effort; e.g. number of fish taken per 1000...