Abstract
The general objective of the LUD pilot is to elucidate how offshore nature enhancement, in particular with oyster reefs, can successfully be carried out in an offshore wind farm. The main objective is to identify key factors for success or failure in Windpark Eneco Luchterduinen. The second objective is to define what lessons learned from the pilot mean for the scalability of the used methods for the nature enhancement in offshore wind farms in the North Sea.
The results show that in the wind farm Luchterduinen survival, growth and reproduction (gonad development, larvae, swarming larvae in high concentrations) of introduced Bonamia free flat oysters from Norway was achieved in 2019 and that oysters remained Bonamia free. Furthermore, the installations attracted substantial biodiversity. These results indicate Luchterduinen wind farm can be a suitable site for flat oyster restoration and nature enhancement in general.