New England fishermen are steaming over a final sale notice from the feds for nearly 1 million acres in the Gulf of Maine designated as a hub for wind energy, even with the area much smaller than initially sought.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold an auction for areas off Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts coasts.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it made the change in response to comments from various sources, including the fishing industry, the U.S. Coast Guard, navigation interests, and the National Marine Fisheries Service.

The US Department of Interior has set an auction date of Oct. 29 for its first sale of offshore wind energy leases in the Gulf of Maine, including several areas east of Cape Cod. Together, the eight lease areas total about 830,