CAELA HOWARD

Fisheries Liaison Caela Howard joined Vineyard Wind in 2019 and focuses on communicating with members of the commercial fishing industry and other fisheries stakeholders in Southern New England.Most recently, Caela worked alongside the Fleet Manager at the Town Dock in Narragansett, RI where she helped lead work on fishing fleets certificates, licenses and state and government reporting. Prior to that she worked as a contracted portside biological sampler for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the ports of New Bedford, MA and Point Judith, RI. Her career working with the fishing industry began with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s Marine Division in 2009 where she logged extensive boat hours seining, trawling, gill netting and drift netting. She also worked on various research projects including work to analyze juvenile Shad and River Herring, and endangered Shortnose and Atlantic Sturgeon in the Connecticut and Thames Rivers and Long Island Sound.

Caela holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science and a masters in Environmental Management. She grew up in Clinton, CT and currently resides in Ledyard, CT with her husband and two children.