CAPE MAY — Wind energy officials speaking at a Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council meeting here Tuesday assured the board that their projects would not hurt the fishing industry.
Dan Cohen, president of Cape May-based Fishermen’s Energy, told the council there are still a number of hurdles on the federal level, so his company is focusing on a pilot project located 2.8 miles off the coast of Atlantic City, keeping it within state waters.
Since the company is funded 100 percent by commercial fishing companies, according to Cohen, they are doing as much studying ahead of time as necessary to minimize the impact of wind turbine construction on any fisheries off the coastline.
An ecological study done by the state stated that the impact of the offshore wind turbines on the marine environment would be “minimal” with regard to New Jersey.
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