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Fisherman’s Energy: Less Chum, More Power
by The Green A-TeamIt’s the wave-making winds that matter more than the monk fish to the biggest names in commercial fishing.
Wind power is rushing to the forefront of America’s race for clean energy and dry land is becoming scarce for use as wind farms. Small, densely populated coastal states like Rhode Island and New Jersey have availed the use of ocean plots which, until now, has been vehemently opposed by commercial fisherman.
Former commercial fishing tycoon turned wind power proponent, David Cohen, is President of Fisherman’s Energy, a partnership of the biggest commercial fishing outfits dedicated to developing offshore wind farms designed to power over 90,000 homes by 2013. The plan benefits the fisherman by allowing them to share in the energy profits and convert their skills on the high seas to erect the massive turbines.
With big fish behind America’s clean energy upgrade, change is soon to follow.
Photo by CCBG.
July 15th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
wow — great to get the guys in the water on board!
July 15th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Without a doubt. This makes the “world’s greatest engineering problem” (switching from our dependency on ancient plants to weather farms) that much easier to solve.
July 17th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Won’t the offshore wind-farms and asociated no-fish zones help the populations of ocean life to flourish like the Lundy Island reserve in the UK did? The end result will be more migrating fish and lobsters/crabs etc for fishermen to catch…
I am sure that fishing could still be carried out around the turbines anyhow.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
From what I understand, the turbines are placed about 1 mile apart interfering with the trawling of large swaths of marine plots. But I’m curious to find out how reduced fishing actually promotes fish populations and could act as an added incentive for the fishermen to hoist up their nets to make way for the turbines.
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