Fishing Victoria Forum

Paulanderson wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 16, 2022 2:56 pm

I was in the UK and passed through a large wind farm - the amount of noise was something I did not expect. Offshore is a way of avoiding this problem.

Offshore or landbased - apart from the noise, these things generate constant vibration that travels in all directions.
Multiply that by x number of units in an array - this cannot be good for any living thing or the environment.
We're yet to see long term side effects of politicised greenery - it won't be pretty.

Looks like Barwon heads and surrounds are going to get a lot more busier offshore fishing..

I wonder if all that noise and vibration generated will drive the pelagics and the likes away from the area.
Would be a shame if it did as the place is just starting to thrive like it used to..

don't they say it takes more energy to produce a wind turbine than it can generate in its service life?

rb85 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:18 pm

fisho999 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:03 pm

I greatly oppose onshore wind farms, they kill so many eagles yet the greenies say the turbines are better than the other options when they kill the eagles that are 1- protected in Australia, and 2- 8000 eagles alone, not counting other sea birds, die to wind turbine every year.

Can you share the link to that info mate I find it disturbing.

To be fair it is 1-2 bird per wind turbine.

ben475 wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:29 am

don't they say it takes more energy to produce a wind turbine than it can generate in its service life?

No, the energy required to build the turbine payback time is 6 to 9 months.

purple5ive wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:20 am

Looks like Barwon heads and surrounds are going to get a lot more busier offshore fishing..

I wonder if all that noise and vibration generated will drive the pelagics and the likes away from the area.
Would be a shame if it did as the place is just starting to thrive like it used to..

We use rattling/vibrating lures to attract fish. Unfortunately they will be swimming mad looking for a lure they can't find. Imagine what will happen if you drop something in the water.

The pylons will attract marine life. Check out some stories about people being proven wrong about the effects of artificial structures in the water.

fisho999 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:43 pm

I just googled it, the first thing that should come up.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+man ... ve&ssui=on

if you press on the part where it says final reoprt it gives you the full pdf.

It says birds, not eagles. Where did you get the impression they were all Eagles?

2000-8000 birds a year in all of Australia. On top of that, the reference in the document cited is actually a reference to a claim being made by the author from an article that she wrote herself. All of the remaining supported evidence is sourced from a report prepared by AGL, who are, suprisingly enough, a gas company.

The language in that actual report is really really interesting to read. Lot's of 'estimated' and 'approximately' and no actual data on anything.

Fish-cador wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 17, 2022 11:11 am

purple5ive wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 17, 2022 9:20 am

Looks like Barwon heads and surrounds are going to get a lot more busier offshore fishing..

I wonder if all that noise and vibration generated will drive the pelagics and the likes away from the area.
Would be a shame if it did as the place is just starting to thrive like it used to..

We use rattling/vibrating lures to attract fish. Unfortunately they will be swimming mad looking for a lure they can't find. Imagine what will happen if you drop something in the water.

The pylons will attract marine life. Check out some stories about people being proven wrong about the effects of artificial structures in the water.

Hahaha yeah these are a very different sort of vibration
Structure will always be a good thing 100%
Be good to get some before and after data of some areas that now have offshore wind turbines and see how it panned out there

frozenpod wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:49 am

rb85 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:18 pm

fisho999 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:03 pm

I greatly oppose onshore wind farms, they kill so many eagles yet the greenies say the turbines are better than the other options when they kill the eagles that are 1- protected in Australia, and 2- 8000 eagles alone, not counting other sea birds, die to wind turbine every year.

Can you share the link to that info mate I find it disturbing.

To be fair it is 1-2 bird per wind turbine.

I was referring to eagles but the article seems a bit dubious.

frozenpod wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 17, 2022 10:49 am

rb85 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:18 pm

fisho999 wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 16, 2022 8:03 pm

I greatly oppose onshore wind farms, they kill so many eagles yet the greenies say the turbines are better than the other options when they kill the eagles that are 1- protected in Australia, and 2- 8000 eagles alone, not counting other sea birds, die to wind turbine every year.

Can you share the link to that info mate I find it disturbing.

To be fair it is 1-2 bird per wind turbine.

1-2 brids to many