Winds of worry: US fishermen fear forests of power turbines
Story Date: 12/26/2017

  Source: Philip Marcelo, WRAL, 12/26/17


East Coast fishermen are turning a wary eye toward an emerging upstart: the offshore wind industry. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, the onetime whaling capital made famous in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," fishermen dread the possibility of navigating a forest of turbines as they make their way to the fishing grounds that have made it the nation's most lucrative fishing port for 17 years running.

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