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Planned wave energy site makes waves with fishermen.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 29-JUN-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Planned wave energy site makes waves with fishermen.(Government)(A hearing points up crabbers' objections to a project that sits in the middle of prime fishing grounds off the Oregon Coast)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Winston Ross The Register-Guard

NEWPORT - Not a single fisherman testified at a hearing Thursday night giving the public a chance to weigh in on state rules for Oregon's newest power bounty: wave energy.

But the fishing community took center stage nonetheless, as state land officials heard from several speakers who said the skippers who make up Oregon's most valuable fishery - Dungeness crab - have mounting concerns about commercial wave energy parks built on sensitive sections of shoreline.

In particular, concern has sprung up in recent months among crabbers who fish in the Reedsport area, where...

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