VENTLESS TRAP AND LARVAL SURVEY
Offshore wind mariner update NO. 80
REVISED
STATUS: Active
F/V ROCK & ROLL and F/V ENCOURAGER, lobster vessels from Martha’s Vineyard and New Bedford working with the School for Marine Science and Technology (SMAST), will be performing larval tows starting on May 8th. Larval tows will be conducted twice a month in Lease Area 0501 and the adjacent control area . After May 15th gear will be deployed for the ventless trap survey at 7 locations within Lease Area 0501 and 7 locations within the control area (Chart). Gear will be deployed at all stations at the end of May. The ventless trap survey will sample traps once in May and twice a month through October 2023. Trawls are set in an East/West direction on the 0’s and 5’s of the 43000 line and are configured in 7 pot strings approximately 1,200 feet long. End lines are marked with radar reflecting highflyers with double flags on the west end and a single flag on the east end. They will be operating throughout Vineyard Wind Lease Area 501 and adjacent control area.
LOCATION(S): Lease Area 0501 and adjacent control area.
All vessels will be standing by on VHF channel 16
F/V ROCK & ROLL
Flag: USA
Length: 43’
Captain: Mohawk Bolin
MMSI: 338308973
F/V ENCOURAGER
Flag: USA
Length: 49’
MMSI: 338305627
Captain: Jarrett Drake
Enhanced Mariner Information:
For enhanced mariner information including map viewer and downloadable plotter files you may scan or click the QR code, or follow the below link. Help is available from the team at Quintham. To access the plotter files just click the area of interest to access the download.
Plotter files are available for most commercial and recreational navigation systems including, Windplots, Timezero, Google Earth, Olex, Furuno, Lowrance, Garmin and many others. The downloadable file includes scour protection locations of 62 planned Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) foundations, 1 Electrical Service Platform (ESP) foundation, 1 Passive Acoustic Monitoring Device Location (PAM), and 1 Potential Unexploded Ordnance Location (pUXO).
VINEYARD WIND
Crista Bank, Fisheries Manager, Cell: 508-525-0421 • Email: cbank@vineyardwind.com
Jeannot Smith, Marine Liaison, Cell: 904-613-0134 • Email: jsmith@vineyardwind.com
Travis Lowery, Fisheries Liaison, Cell: 508-728-4529 • Email: tlowery@vineyardwind.com
VineyardWind.com • info@vineyardwind.com • 508-717-8964
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