"The researchers outlined guidelines for governments to provide long-distance larval drifters, like #urchins and #lobsters, as well as #MigratorSpecies, like #turtles and #sharks, with protected stopovers along coastal corridors. "
#MerineSanctuary
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-marine-areas-climate.html
#OffshoreWind to the rescue!
"The turbines’ seabed foundations, bolstered by rock piles around the masts, function as artificial #reefs upon which flora and #crustacea thrive, which then are consumed by #fish, #porpoises, and #seals.
Marine scientists have found that these #RenewableEnergy parks can serve as sprawling #MarineSanctuaries, some of them as vast as 80 square kilometers (31 square miles) in size."
"The sheltered marine space could actually be crucial to rejuvenating #FishStocks, #shellfish populations, and mammals.
The #NorthSea’s population of gray #seals, for example, has grown steadily in recent years, a comeback aided by the 30 wind parks in the North Sea.
Not only are #cod living in the [wind] park today, but “we found their condition was better than that of those cod outside the park.” "
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/01/the-case-for-co-locating-offshore-wind-parks-and-nature-reserves/
#Denmark:
Beneath #OffshoreWind turbines, researchers grow #seafood and seaweed
“Recent Aarhus University modeling suggests tons of fresh #seafood could be produced annually by utilizing just a tenth of Denmark’s wind park area. Researchers say the benefits could go well beyond food production — mussel and seaweed crops could help improve water quality and capture carbon."
Researchers are exploring multiple uses for wind parks far out at sea, such as producing fresh seafood. A four-year project that started in 2023 at Scandinavia's largest wind farm off Denmark's east coast is showing signs of early success with its first harvest of seaweed 18 months later. The farm's 72 turbines deliver energy to both Denmark and Germany, but researchers saw other potential too. The water between its spinning blades has been transformed into an experimental underwater seafood farm. Recent modeling by Aarhus University, which co-runs the project, suggests that tons of fresh seafood could be produced annually by utilizing just a tenth of Denmark’s wind park area.
Solarpunk is exactly it!
(sounds much better than windpunk, anyway 😆 ).
This is one of the many ways that life with clean energy will be so much better. More of this, please!
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