With up to 30 square miles of fishing territory at stake, plans by three developers to build wind-energy farms off New Jersey’s coast could have been in very troubled waters had the developers tried to put the area off limits to the state’s commercial and recreational fishing industries.
“…this means that commercial fishermen will be able to harvest their bounty between the turbines while anglers, pot fishermen and even scuba divers could fish right next to the structures.”
In a September 6 story in The News Journal, (Bluewater works on new financing) Mandelstam said a deal should be completed within 60 days with a new ownership partner and that Babcock and Brown will be out of the project by the end of the year.
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