The entire Ocean SAMP was held up nationwide as a model program and several other coastal states began to use it as a model for similar planning. This made it all the more disappointing to me when I was part of the CRMC Fisheries Advisory Board (FAB) and it seemed that someone high in the chain of command had decided that the offshore wind projects were too important to be slowed down by the rigorous process defined in the Ocean SAMP. That process would be too slow and/or too expensive to follow, according to the huge foreign corporations who were pushing rapid development of offshore wind energy (OWE) projects.
In 2009 I started working on ocean planning with a group of dedicated ocean planning experts at the Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) and the Coastal Resources Center (CRC) at University of Rhode Island. I was representing local saltwater anglers and giving input regarding how we use coastal waters for fishing.
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