Winds of worry: US fishermen fear forests of power turbines

NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — 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.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/winds-of-worry-us-fishermen-fear-forests-of-power-turbines/2017/12/25/15272706-e97d-11e7-956e-baea358f9725_story.html?utm_term=.3a3ae07d3989
Article courtesy of The Washington Post by Philip Marcelo/Associated Press