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East Hampton Trustees To Hear Wind Farm Fisheries Study Plan Monday Night

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Scientists still start studying fish migrations this summer as a baseline for tracking how stock distributions change after industrial scale wind farms start being built south of New England.

Scientists still start studying fish migrations this summer as a baseline for tracking how stock distributions change after industrial scale wind farms start being built south of New England.

authorMichael Wright on May 24, 2021
Scientists from three regional universities will begin tagging and tracking hundreds of fish in the waters off the South Fork this summer as two five-year studies of fish migrations begin... more

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