Once it opened in December 2016, the five-turbine Block Island Wind Farm has become the most studied, researched and generally looked upon wind power array anywhere in the world. It is also the most fished upon turbine project in the nation, seeing it’s the only true array, per se, with a two-turbine test build in Virginia being closer to a nervous look-see by the state. Those two Virginia turbs are also highly well attended by anglers.
In a Fisherman Magazine article headlined “The Block Island Wind (And Fish) Farm,” Capt.
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