The Rich North Sea - Luchterduinen OWF
Innovative Oyster Tables on the Scour Protection of Monopiles

Photos: The Rich North Sea

The Netherlands
The Rich North Sea – Luchterduinen OWF

For this project, The Rich North Sea collaborated with Eneco and Van Oord to improve on the design of structures used in a previous pilot project focused on European flat oysters in offshore wind farms. With a newer, more stable oyster broodstock structure design, this project would answer how the structure performs on the scour protection around the monopiles in the Luchterduinen offshore wind farm in terms of stability, sediment coverage and oyster survival/reproduction, as well as in terms of practical placement, maintenance and costs.

Partners

  • The Rich North Sea,
  • Eneco,
  • Van Oord

Project date: started in 2022

Flat oysters glued to the oyster table with poles, just before installation on the scour protection.
(Photos: The Rich North Sea)
Oyster table installation at the scour protection of wind farm Luchterduinen.
Oyster gluing to the oyster table poles, rubber bands were used to keep them attached during drying.
More information, methods, results, reports, videos, products that were used as well as tips and tricks can be found on the 

Toolbox page of this project.

Contacts:

NORAexpert
Renate Olie
(The Rich North Sea)
r.olie@derijkenoordzee.nl