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It pays not to get between a fisherman and their livelihood, as the offshore wind industry is learning fast.

Along America’s Atlantic coast, fishermen of all shapes and sizes have turned on the offshore wind industry with an industrial scale fury.

Right alongside them are those with a passionate concern for whales, porpoises and dolphins. Another group of critters that the wind industry treats as ‘roadkill’, and why wouldn’t, they? – having helpfully obtained government licenses to kill as many as they please.

Then there’s the effect on the creatures that provide fishermen with income and their customers with dining pleasure.

Serious studies have shown that offshore wind farms are doing irreparable harm to crabs and lobsters.

One scientific study found that the electromagnetic fields generated by created by the cables that connect offshore wind turbines attract crabs that then remain in place, fixated on the magnetic field, effectively…