January 15, 2021 — There are many details to be worked out regarding the Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind’s lease site, which lies 10 to 20 miles off the coast between Barnegat Light and Atlantic City, but the wind energy developer has a message to fisherman: They are welcome to try their luck there.
The clean energy developer assured fisherman Wednesday they won’t be excluded from the roughly 183,000-acre wind farm.
“You’re welcome to fish by the structures; we just ask that you don’t tie up to them,” Doug Copeland, Atlantic Shores’ development manager, told about 75 people who attended a webinar hosted by the developer.
Atlantic Shores, a partnership between Shell New Energies US LLC and EDF Renewables North America, is six years from getting its wind farm up and running, according to its own timeline.