The offshore wind (OSW) energy industry is rapidly developing in the United States. New federal mandates require at least 30 GW of OSW by 2030. With the largest goal in the eastern United States, the state of New York seeks to advance OSW in a way that is both environmentally and socially responsible as well as cost-effective. To achieve this, New York developed technical working groups (TWGs) in 2017 focused on critical topics relating to OSW energy development, including the Fisheries Technical Working Group and Environment Technical Working Group (F-TWG and E-TWG; collectively, “the TWGs”). The TWGs are composed of OSW developers, fishing industry (F-TWG) or environmental nongovernmental organizations (E-TWG), federal agency representatives, and state representatives from Maine to North Carolina. These groups advise the state of New York on OSW issues by emphasizing the use of science and technical expertise to inform decision making. The effectiveness of TWG collaborations is due to a variety of reasons, including the regional scale of stakeholder involvement, which allows the groups to develop guidance at an appropriate geographic scale relative to OSW and fishing activities and wildlife populations. The regional collaboration and communication fostered by the TWGs are essential for building trust among stakeholder groups and working collectively to minimize fisheries and environmental impacts as the OSW industry progresses. This paper highlights the OSW stakeholder engagement process and approach implemented by New York through the development of TWGs, as a means of identifying needs for environmental and fisheries resources to inform responsible OSW development within New York and regionally across the eastern United States. The lessons learned from the TWG process can be used to inform stakeholder engagement efforts in other locations.

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海上风能开发的利益相关者有效参与：纽约州渔业和环境技术工作组

海上风能 (OSW) 能源行业在美国发展迅速。新的联邦授权要求到 2030 年至少有 30 GW 的 OSW。纽约州以美国东部为最大目标，力求以对环境和社会负责且具有成本效益的方式推进 OSW。为实现这一目标，纽约于 2017 年成立了技术工作组 (TWG)，重点关注与 OSW 能源开发相关的关键主题，包括渔业技术工作组和环境技术工作组（F-TWG 和 E-TWG；统称为“TWG” ”）。TWG 由 OSW 开发商、渔业 (F-TWG) 或环保非政府组织 (E-TWG)、联邦机构代表以及从缅因州到北卡罗来纳州的州代表组成。这些团体通过强调使用科学和技术专业知识为决策提供信息，就 OSW 问题向纽约州提出建议。TWG 合作的有效性归因于多种原因，包括利益相关者参与的区域规模，这使得这些团体能够在适当的地理范围内制定与 OSW 和捕鱼活动以及野生动物种群相关的指南。TWG 促进的区域协作和沟通对于在利益相关者团体之间建立信任以及共同努力以尽量减少 OSW 行业发展对渔业和环境的影响至关重要。本文重点介绍了纽约通过 TWG 的开发实施的 OSW 利益相关者参与流程和方法，作为确定环境和渔业资源需求的一种手段，为纽约和美国东部地区负责任的 OSW 发展提供信息。从 TWG 流程中吸取的经验教训可用于为其他地点的利益相关者参与工作提供信息。