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H.-J. Ceccaldi et al. (eds.), Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_24, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Abstract
In France four offshore windmill projects are planned before 2017. For the
three Northeast projects, fi sheries fi elds are likely to be impacted, due to foot
foundation. The environmental impact studies state that impacts to fi shermen will be offset with subsidies from windmill taxes and with specifi c mitigation like artifi cial reef or stock enhancement for fi sheries losses mainly for
scallops ( Pecten sp. ). Losses should be offset, for scallops, by the release of
juveniles and for fi shes with effective artifi cial reefs (as new functional habitats) with management project developed by fi shermen. We propose to scale
the size of projects likely to mitigate the losses for scallop fi sheries, in the
aim to reach an ecological equivalency between the losses and the gains. To
do so, we propose the use of “Visual Habitat Equivalency Analysis” (Visual_
HEA) assessment method, a software proposed by the EU commission and
the French Ministry of Environment in the case of ex post damage compensation in application of Environmental Liability Directive 2004/35/EC. This
tool was developed by the Nova Southeastern University and the CEFE–
University Montpellier 3, for its last versus and French translation, the concept is based on the assessment of ecosystemic services through indicator
species called “proxy.” A brief presentation of the tool will be proposed
before to expose preliminary results with a case study for an ex ante impact:
P. Sylvain (*)
UMR 5175, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle
et Evolutive , Université Montpellier 3 ,
Route de Mende , 34199 Montpellier, Cedex 5 , France
e-mail: sylvain.pioch@univ-montp3.fr
How to Size “Fair” Compensatory
Mitigation Due to Coastal Area
Destruction for Fisheries
Resources: Visual Habitat
Equivalency Analysis Software,
a Scoring Method to Sizing
Compensatory Mitigations
Applied in Offshore Windmill
Renewable Energy Project Case
Study
Pioch Sylvain
H.-J. Ceccaldi et al. (eds.), Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_24, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Abstract
In France four offshore windmill projects are planned before 2017. For the
three Northeast projects, fi sheries fi elds are likely to be impacted, due to foot
foundation. The environmental impact studies state that impacts to fi shermen will be offset with subsidies from windmill taxes and with specifi c mitigation like artifi cial reef or stock enhancement for fi sheries losses mainly for
scallops ( Pecten sp. ). Losses should be offset, for scallops, by the release of
juveniles and for fi shes with effective artifi cial reefs (as new functional habitats) with management project developed by fi shermen. We propose to scale
the size of projects likely to mitigate the losses for scallop fi sheries, in the
aim to reach an ecological equivalency between the losses and the gains. To
do so, we propose the use of “Visual Habitat Equivalency Analysis” (Visual_
HEA) assessment method, a software proposed by the EU commission and
the French Ministry of Environment in the case of ex post damage compensation in application of Environmental Liability Directive 2004/35/EC. This
tool was developed by the Nova Southeastern University and the CEFE–
University Montpellier 3, for its last versus and French translation, the concept is based on the assessment of ecosystemic services through indicator
species called “proxy.” A brief presentation of the tool will be proposed
before to expose preliminary results with a case study for an ex ante impact:
P. Sylvain (*)
UMR 5175, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle
et Evolutive , Université Montpellier 3 ,
Route de Mende , 34199 Montpellier, Cedex 5 , France
e-mail: sylvain.pioch@univ-montp3.fr
How to Size “Fair” Compensatory
Mitigation Due to Coastal Area
Destruction for Fisheries
Resources: Visual Habitat
Equivalency Analysis Software,
a Scoring Method to Sizing
Compensatory Mitigations
Applied in Offshore Windmill
Renewable Energy Project Case
Study
Pioch Sylvain