Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará

Brazil’s offshore wind farms could sacrifice small-scale fishing in Ceará

Click here for Portuguese original. A symbol of Brazil’s Ceará state and present on its official coat of arms since 1897, sail rafts known as jangadas are 80% of the fishing vessels in the state, but they could lose ground to wind turbines installed at sea. The matter is relevant because small-scale fishers who use unmotorized sail rafts such as Ceará’s jangadas depend on the strength of the winds to move around in the sea. That could be severel…