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Now, four decades later, once-abundant winter flounder is difficult to find. The harvesting or possession of the fish is prohibited in much of Narragansett Bay and in Point Judith and Potter ponds. Anglers must return the ones they accidentally catch to the sea.
Overfishing is easily blamed, and the industry certainly bears responsibility, as does consumer demand. But winter flounder’s local extinction isn’t simply the result of overfishing. Sure, it played a factor, but the reasons are complicated, from habitat loss, pollution and energy production i.e., the former Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Mass., pre-cooling towers, when the since-shuttered facility took in about a billion gallons of water daily from Mount Hope Bay and discharged it at more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit.
Mayflower said it plans to use the Brayton Point spot to hook into the region’s electricity grid from a wind farm to be built in an offshore area south of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.
May 28, 2021, by Adnan Durakovic
Mayflower Wind and Anbaric Development Partners have signed an agreement for Mayflower Wind to use transmission assets developed by Anbaric to bring offshore wind to Brayton Point, Massachusetts, USA.
When fully built out, and with continuing advancements in wind technology, Mayflower Wind’s lease area will supply over 2,000 MW of offshore wind, enough to power nearly a million homes.
Mayflower Wind’s use of the existing grid connection will help set in motion the development of supporting infrastructure at Brayton Point needed to revitalize the former coal plant site and enable Somerset and the South Coast to benefit from the rapidly expanding offshore wind industry, the companies said.
SOMERSET There’s no love lost between the owners of the former Brayton Point Power Station and residents living in the nearby neighborhood.
“They’re a nightmare of a company,” Kathy Souza said, referring to Commercial Development Company Inc., also known as CDC.
The St. Louis-based CDC bought the 306-acre industrial site in December 2018 for just under $9 million, a year after all production ended at the former coal-burning titan.
The CDC company has said its priority has been to broker a contract with an offshore wind energy company to build a combined storage, maintenance and manufacturing site for wind turbine components.