NOAA news
January 25, 2024
Strategy is part of larger interagency effort to promote recovery of endangered species while responsibly developing offshore wind
![These two rare North Atlantic right whales were photographed by the NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Center aerial survey team in May 2016.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_325/public/legacy/image/2019/Jun/Photo%20-%20Aerial%20-%20North%20Atlantic%20Right%20Whales%20-%20NEFSC%20photo%20-%20Landscape.jpg?itok=5kpWTMCn)
December 5, 2023
![Map of the Gulf of Maine showing the Call Area outlined in black and Draft Wind Energy Area colored in blue](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_325/public/2023-12/Gulf-map-noaa.png?h=7138bb95&itok=0YHNq4Aw)
November 30, 2023
![Photo showing a wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm on July 07, 2022 near Block Island, Rhode Island.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_325/public/2023-01/PHOTO-wind-turbine-generates-electricity-Block-Island-Wind-070722-Block-Island-Rhode-Island-GettyImages-1407548512.jpg?h=0f43e830&itok=eiAClpGi)
January 19, 2023
![Photo of a wind turbines generate electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm on July 07, 2022 near Block Island, Rhode Island.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_325/public/2023-01/PHOTO-wind-turbine-generates-electricity-Block-Island-Wind-070722-Block-Island-Rhode-Island-GettyImages-1407548832.jpg?h=2b00fa91&itok=VgOuBrk5)
December 5, 2022
Agencies aim to mitigate offshore wind development impacts
![Aerial view of wind turbines that generate electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm on July 07, 2022 near Block Island, Rhode Island. The first commercial offshore wind farm in the United States is located 3.8 miles from Block Island, Rhode Island in the Atlantic Ocean.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_325/public/2022-12/PHOTO-Offshore-wind-turbines-generate-electricity-at-Block-Island-Wind-Farm-070722-Block-Island-Rhode-Island-Getty.jpg?h=dbfeca34&itok=H-Oe9uww)