FORCE recently collaborated with industry members from the tidal stream energy sector and staff from OES-E to publish this new peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering that describes a probabilistic assessment framework that may help determine collision risk for marine animals with tidal stream turbines.

The framework outlines a series of sequential steps that must take place, each with an associated probability, for a marine animal to approach an operational turbine, be struck by a turbine blade and be harmed (i.e., suffer a critical injury or mortality).

This paper explores the process using striped bass in the Minas Passage as a case study (to the extent currently possible).