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Industrial-scale aquaculture – a fit for Maine?
I’m concerned with the encroachment of aquaculture in our waters and question how the industry will affect the future of coastal Maine communities.
January 26, 2023
I’m concerned with the encroachment of aquaculture in our waters and question how the industry will affect the future of coastal Maine communities.
I am the wife of a fourth-generation fisherman whose livelihood is threatened by a recent decision to permit a large open-RAS industrial-scale aquaculture company to operate in Chandler Bay.
The aquaculture industry poses risks to the future of lobstering in our community. I’m concerned with the encroachment of aquaculture in our waters and question how the industry will affect the future of coastal Maine communities.
The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost — the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean’s food chain.
The State of Maine is shopping its coastal towns to industrial fish farms, without the knowledge of local officials.
An activist group said Tuesday it is planning to appeal a Nov. 29 decision by the Jonesport, Maine, planning board.
Protect Downeast will be appealing the November 29, 2022 Jonesport planning board vote, to allow the Kingfish Maine industrial scale aquafarm project to move forward.
I live in Roque Bluffs, just around the corner from Jonesport. I have been lobstering for 30 years. I also have served my town for the last 20 years on the selectboard, and this year, I became chair. I am deeply concerned about the Kingfish project in Jonesport for a number of reasons.
I come from a lobster fishing family. I am very worried about the pollution that the state is going to allow Kingfish to put into