What are the potential impacts on fishery activities due to LNG ship transit?
Potential impacts on fishing (scalloping, lobstering, and clamming) could result from the project if traps are damaged during the transit of LNG ships or if the LNG ship safety/security plans imposed by the U.S. Coast Guard create limited access to fishing grounds. Normally, fishery impacts due to limited access have not been the case at other U.S. LNG terminal operations. In the case examples surveyed and known to Downeast LNG (e.g., Chesapeake Bay, MD; Guayanilla Bay, PR; Columbia River, OR (proposed)), there has been no substantive (or projected, in the case of Oregon) impact on local fisheries.
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