March 26, 2023 — Earlier this week, we looked into incoming offshore wind development in the Gulf of Maine from the economic and energy perspective.
But the Gulf is also a workplace for thousands of Maine fishermen whose business might be impacted by these floating turbines.
They share their biggest concerns with the “Winds of Change” in part two of this special report.
“I don’t think we own the Gulf of Maine,” lobsterman Stephen Train said. “But, we’ve been using it for so long, we have trouble with the concept of displacement, and it’s justified. We’ve been the caretakers. We’ve been harvesting a very successful resource, or multiple resources, out of this gulf managed very well for a long time.”
Thousands of lobstermen generations deep have used the fertile waters of the Gulf of Maine to make their living. But many today fear that offshore wind may just blow them out of the water.