NEW BEDFORD — Calling offshore wind turbines "the new frontier for renewable energy," Daniel Cohen, head of an offshore wind company owned by fishermen, spoke to a small but lively crowd at the New Bedford Whaling Museum Monday.
Cohen is president of Fishermen's Energy, made up of principals in several other New Jersey-based fishing companies who want a stake in how and where wind turbines are sited, he said.
"Offshore wind is happening," said Cohen, who is also CEO of Atlantic Capes Fisheries, a New Jersey company that operates more than 20 fishing vessels.
Eight companies are currently proposing projects off Maryland, he said, and his company is one of the eight. "If we didn't exist, seven of them would still be there," he said.
But some of the fishermen in attendance Monday predicted further ruin for the industry if such projects become a reality.
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