[bulletbob]

I don't know about the taxes, thats a good question.. From what I know about wind farms[ lots of them up here] some are privately funded and maintained. One off the coast of Canada is privately funded. I guess they would have to lease the ocean bottom from the federal govt, not sure.. If the areas directly adjacent to the turbines is off limits, and that would probably be the case in this age of bomb crazy maniacs, I bet you would still have good fishing for pelagics in the open water between the turbines.. If they are publicly funded even partially, I would say there could be areas maintained in the vicinity as large artificial reef sites as part of the deal.
Just saying, if oil and gas exploration of the North and Mid Atlantic states is not going to happen, maybe wind farms would be a good alternative. For clean renewable energy, with a side benefit of a lot of new habitat for a wide variety of fish species, and all kinds of other sea life... bob