DRESDEN, Nov. 13, 2020— A local fisherman is urging Torrey town officials to consider the declining state of Seneca Lake’s fish before they approve Greenidge Generation’s planned expansion of its Bitcoin mining data center.
“The fishing’s gone to hell,” and the Dresden power plant might be one reason why, Michael Black, owner of a lake cottage in Dundee, told the Torrey Town Board Tuesday night.
Black, who’s fished the lake steadily since the 1970s, said he’d routinely catch 35-50 fish during the National Lake Trout Derby on a Memorial Day weekend, sometimes winning prizes. “For the last five years, I’m lucky if I’ve caught one fish for 200 hours of fishing….I know a lot of fishermen who are going to Cayuga, to Keuka, to Lake Ontario and they’re skipping right by Seneca.”