National Grid are wanting to reach out to the fishing industry to help determine which subsea cable routes they choose for 3 offshore wind farms by gathering information on which areas would impact you the least and what mitigation could be used for particular methods of fishing.
Please see the text from them below and then either reply to this email or contact them directly at box.offshorecoord@nationalgrideso.com if you would like to hear more or provide information.
On behalf of Great Britain’s Electricity System Operator. We are leading on the initial design phase for cable routes for floating offshore wind in the Celtic Sea and are interested in understanding how this could impact the local fishing industry.
The government is planning to build windmills in the Celtic Sea to create clean energy. These windmills will be big and will float on the water! To get the energy from the windmills to homes and businesses, they need to connect them to land with special cables that go under the sea.
They're still figuring out the best places to put these cables. They want to make sure they don't cause problems for people who fish in that area.
Right now, they have information about offshore fishing boats, but they need to know more about smaller and inshore ones too. They'd really appreciate any information you can share about where the smaller fishing boats work in the Celtic Sea. This will help them pick the best cable routes that won't get in the way of fishing.
If you have any information to share, they'd be happy to chat with you more about it!
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As we ask more question over the next month we would like to present our findings and discuss our evaluations. If you would be interested in hearing more, we’d really like to hear from you. You can do this in two ways, either by replying to this email or contacting us directly at box.offshorecoord@nationalgrideso.com
