Maine: Local fishermen praise bill limiting offshore wind
From Brooksville to Blue Hill to Stonington, local fishermen are applauding Congressman Jared Golden’s co-sponsorship of a bill prohibiting commercial offshore wind energy development over nearly 14,000 square miles in the Gulf of Maine. The Northern Fisheries Heritage Protection Act of 2025 would protect Lobster Management Area 1, the nearshore fishing waters stretching from the Canadian border to the north shore of Cape Cod, from wind development. “I support that all the way,” said Marsden Brewer, who has fished out of Stonington his entire life. Brewer, who has fished commercially for lobster, shrimp, ground fish and sea urchins, currently scallops and, with his son, Bob, runs a local aquaculture scallop farm. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 11:47
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