Environment and Energy Careful Ocean Planning Is Needed to Solve Fishing-Wind Farm Battles

​News Date: 12/30/2016     Printed in The Star-Ledger

Tim Dillingham Guest Columnist

Conflict is looming just beyond the horizon on the high seas off New York and New Jersey - and it doesn't bode well for our appetite for fish at the dinner table.

As reported in The Star-Ledgeron Dec. 9, "Commercial fishing companies, trade groups and seaport communities in four states (recently) asked a court to stop the federal government from auctioning off the rights to develop an offshore wind farm" in the Atlantic Ocean.

Will fighting clean-energy wind mills become a quixotic effort from the commercial fishing industry? This shouldn't even be a question if there was proper planning.

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