. >> reporter: eric hansen is a fourth-generation fisherman based in new bedford. two boats, which travel up and down the east coast to reach regulated stockof scallops. while vineyard wind is not in an area he fishes, hansen is concerned the turbines will create a navigational hazard. >> when you get bad weather or heavy fog, and then if you throw a boat in there that's moving through besides yourself, to try and pick out the fixed target from the moving target on the radar screen will be next to impossible. >> reporter: about 40 miles down the coast, in point judith, rhode island, fisherman christopher brown is concerned how vineyard wind, and the cumulative impact of future offshore wind projects, will affect fisheries, including the whiting, squid, and flounders he fishes for. >> we're afraid that it's going to displace more boats into less ocean. that will increase the impacts on the bottom, and the stocks. we don't know what it's going to do to systemicroductivity. we have hoped for a precautionary approach, but that kind of looks like it's going out the wind