Abstract
The first year of seasonal surveys for the New York Offshore Planning Area (OPA) were started in July 2016. Subsequent surveys occurred in November 2016, March 2017, and May 2017. These surveys are designed to characterize the usage of the area by marine fauna to aid in the planning for offshore wind. Each survey has fully reported birds, turtles, marine mammals, rays, and sharks, and the reports are available on the dedicated data portal. However, at the beginning of this project, large bony fish and fish shoals were not part of the analyses scope. It was only after noticing that a large number of detected fish could potentially be identified and mapped that NYSERDA tasked Normandeau with analyzing the first year of data. Large bony fish have been identified and the areal extent of all fish shoals measured. This report summarizes the findings of these additional analyses.