By KAREN VELIE Fishermen from Morro Bay and Port San Luis recently filed a legal challenge against the California Coastal Commission for not requiring
Fishermen from Morro Bay and Port San Luis recently filed a legal challenge against the California Coastal Commission for not requiring wind energy companies to abide by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management rules before providing permits for sonar testing, the second lawsuit the groups have filed against the commission.
A lawsuit filed on Feb. 29 by the Morro Bay Commercial Fisherman’s Organization and the Port San Luis Commercial Fisherman’s Association, seeks to protect the plaintiffs’ constitutional right to fish through mitigation of impacts from the off-shore wind farms, including during the site surveys, construction, operation and decommissioning. The suit is winding through the system.
However, Equinor’s liaison “failed to inform the fisherman organizations or their members of the status of various permits required to commence such site surveys in dereliction of its obligations under Consistency Determination Condition 7a,” according to the lawsuit. In addition, the Coastal Commission determined that the permitted site survey activities will not affect fish and other marine species. However, local fishermen report catch numbers were down 67% to 70% while Equinor did sonar work off the coast.near the New York and New Jersey shores have prompted an investigation into the sonar noise levels produced by exploratory survey vessels working in ocean areas leased by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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