ACK for Whales leading a new wind farm lawsuit

May 29, 2025 New England

ACK for Whales has filed a new lawsuit in its effort to stop the construction of offshore wind farms off the coast of Nantucket, and this time, it’s brought backup. Co-plaintiffs in the latest suit include the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah); a coalition of charter fishing groups from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York; Nantucket lobsterman Dan Pronk and Nantucket pilot and fish-spotter Doug Lindley. “We joined this lawsuit because individual Tribal Members and our Tribe are being harmed by these giant wind farms making an industrial park out of our waters,” said tribal chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais in a statement. more, >>CLICK TO READ<< 06:18

ACK For Whales, Co-plaintiffs, coalition of charter fishing groups, coast of Nantucket, Connecticut, filed a new lawsuit, massachusetts, Nantucket lobsterman Dan Pronk, Nantucket pilot and fish-spotter Doug Lindley, new-york, offshore wind farms, Rhode Island, tribal chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head

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Mary Thomas says:

May 29, 2025 at 9:55 am

I pray y’all are successful to stop this insanity.

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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