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Rhode Island Fisherman’s Advisory Board (FAB) resigned en masse in response to the Rhode Island CRMC giving deference to offshore wind developers regardless of the requirements of the Ocean SAMP, the cost to the environment, or the impacts to Rhode Island’s fishing industry. The full letter can be viewed below and downloaded from the document links on this page. 

A plan backed by the Biden administration to OK a string of wind farms off Rhode Island has prompted every member of a fishing regulatory board in the state to resign.

Every member of Rhode Islands Fishermens Advisory Board resigned saying the state government is ignoring offshore winds impacts on fisheries.

All nine members of the Rhode Island Fishermen’s Advisory Board resigned Sept. 1, saying the state Coastal Resource Management Council is so committed to developing offshore wind power that it has rejected the board’s concerns about fishery and environmental impacts.

The panel's former members said they did not want their names connected to the CRMC approvals amounting to 'wholesale ocean destruction.'

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Members of the state Fishermen’s Advisory Board say they’ve...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Members of the state Fishermen’s Advisory Board say they’ve hit an impasse in negotiations with Orsted and Eversource over compensation for the impact of the proposed South Fork Wind Farm.

Boy rescued from Outlet Stream in Vassalboro after falling through the ice Lanny Dellinger, 12, of Winslow was hanging on to ice to keep his head above water when first responders with wetsuits on freed him. Share An adolescent boy was rescued Monday afternoon from the Outlet Stream in Vassalboro after falling through the ice and getting stuck in the mud below. Lanny Dellinger, 12, of Winslow was rescued and taken to a MaineGeneral Thayer Center for Health with hypothermia due to being stuck i...

12 Year Old Rescued in Vassalboro After Falling Through Ice As a parent its one of the worst things you could possibly imagine. Your young child falling through a section of thin ice into the frigid waters below. Well, for one set of Winslow parents, thats exactly what happened yesterday. According to the Portland Press Herald, the 911 call came in at about 1 PM on Monday afternoon when reports of two adolescents falling through thin ice in the outlet stream in Vassalboro came in. Agencies, in...

As Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo could play a key role in the development of offshore wind power on the East Coast