SPECIAL REPORT: Analysis casts doubt on financial viability of yet another fish farm
Is the State of Maine being played again by a foreign company making unsustainable promises to build an industrial fish farm in a pristine bay in Downeast?
Is the State of Maine being played again by a foreign company making unsustainable promises to build an industrial fish farm in a pristine bay in Downeast?
John P.M. Higgins
Financial Consultant
One Union Street – Suite 302
Portland, ME 04101
Tel: (207) 775-7200
In Kingfish’s own Admission Document, risks associated with their business are outlined for investors. These risks “include for instance oxygen depletion, diseases, viruses, bacteria, parasites, algae blooms and other contaminants”
“If the Kingfish Industrial Complex was totally self-contained there would be no argument from Protect Downeast.”
Protect Downeast, comprised of lobstermen and women, marine harvesters, businesspeople, and concerned environmentalists released its court appeal today of the Jonesport Planning Board’s decision to allow the industrial scale Kingfish project to move forward.
April 10, 2022(Jonesport, Maine) Protect Downeast, comprised of lobstermen and women, marine harvesters, businesspeople, and concerned environmentalists released its court appeal today of the Jonesport
This is how industrialization will eventually claim Maine’s coastal waters – with cunning, expensive lobbyists doing their thing and state agencies as willing partners.
A large-scale, land-based aquaculture facility is one step closer to breaking ground after the Board of Appeals unanimously upheld the Planning Board’s decision to approve the project.
The pristine and productive marine environment in Chandler and Englishman Bays where Jonesport, Roque Bluffs, and Roque Island are situated is now threatened by the plans of Kingfish Maine to build an industrial-sized, land-based fish farm in Jonesport.