The National Marine Fisheries Service said in a statement on Thursday that it hasn’t yet been able to come to a point of agreement with the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management, the lead federal agency on offshore wind.
Meghan Lapp, the fisheries liaison for one of the largest producers of frozen seafood, says fisheries have concerns about how offshore wind will affect their livelihoods.
“We as the fishing industry up until now have not really had a part in the process,” Lapp says. “Now that National Fisheries Service is also looking at concerns about the impacts to fisheries, to stocks, to surveys…that’s a very good thing.”
In a statement, NOAA does not specifically mention the concerns it had with the lead agencies environmental assessment and says it is “committed to resolving these differences.”
