Known locations of static fishing gear, provided via the onshore Fisheries Liaison Representative (FLR).
20.
The TCE conflict check (identifying sea bed assets within the survey area) was also utilised to ensure that where micro siting was employed, the relocated site did not conflict with a TCE asset.
21.
Five sites were selected for video and grab sampling in each of the windfarms, East Anglia THREE and FOUR. In addition, one of the five sites was selected for sea bed contaminants sampling, and three of the sites selected for 2m beam trawling.
22.
Table 2.1 presents the total number of proposed samples, sample type and “area” within the development zone.
Table 1.1 Sampling Summary Sample Type
East Anglia THREE and FOUR Cable Route
Grab samples for macrofauna and particle size distribution (single replicates)
Sediment
contaminants samples
Drop down video
2m Beam trawls (single replicates)
23.
46 sites 7 sites
8 sites 3 sites
8 sites 3 sites
None None
39 sites
East Anglia THREE
East Anglia FOUR
East Anglia ONE, THREE and FOUR Cable Route
5 sites 5 sites None
4 sites
1 site
1 site
10 sites
Table 1.2 presents sites within the East Anglia THREE and FOUR cable route which were micro sited from the proposed sample location following the pre survey review of survey locations.
Benthic Characterisation Report November 2013
East Anglia THREE and FOUR Offshore Cable Corridor
