![]() The wind energy association video shows beds of mussels taking shape and small fish swimming around the turbine bases. Many of the projects call for hundreds of turbines to be built miles away from shore, sometimes within or along the path to lucrative fishing spots. Offshore wind developers from New England to the Carolinas are racing to build the nation's first large-scale wind farm. "This is nice and fun to see, but it doesn't tip the conversation," Seth Rolbein, of the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance in Chatham, Massachusetts, said of the video. "This is a success story that can be replicated all along our coastlines."īut the video does little to temper the concerns of commercial fishermen, who are worried about navigating dense forests of turbines to get to their historic fishing grounds, says Jim Kendall, a former scallop fisherman in New Bedford, Massachusetts. "The turbine foundations are now acting as an artificial reef," said Nancy Sopko, the wind energy association's director of offshore wind and federal legislative affairs. The American Wind Energy Association, an industry trade group, says the roughly two-minute clip it posted on YouTube this week shows the potential for the nation's fishing industry as larger projects are envisioned up and down the East Coast. BOSTON - Offshore wind proponents are touting new undersea footage that suggests a vibrant marine habitat is growing around the nation's first offshore wind farm - a five-turbine operation off Rhode Island's waters. ![]()
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