The Martha’s Vineyard/Dukes County Fishermen’s Association is utterly determined to take on the federal government over the plan to turn over the rich fishing grounds of Horseshoe Shoal to Cape Wind’s proposed wind farm. They don’t lack pluck. What they lack is money.
So tomorrow night they will hold the first of a planned series of events which they hope will raise the necessary $75,000 to pursue legal action to have the wind farm moved, or at least to have its effects on their livelihoods mitigated.
The goal for the first event, to be held at the P.A. Club, is $10,000, said the association’s president, Mr. Doty.
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