Residents in Jonesport are squaring off against an industrial scale aquaculture project with substantial foreign investment. It is the fourth such large-scale aquaculture project proposed
I am writing out of concern for the foreign company Kingfish constructing an inland fish farm in Jonesport along the shore of Chandler Bay. They
“The water would be “sterilized.” Finfish eggs, shellfish spat, and lobster larvae are smaller than the proposed one-inch outer-mesh filtration. All would be sterilized or
FishFarmExpert.com reports: CBSMiami reported Miami-Dade fire chief Jason Richard as saying: “They were in there in one of these tanks used to raise fish for
FishFarmingExpert.com reports that “All fish being grown at Atlantic Sapphire’s on-land salmon farm in Denmark are expected to be lost after fire broke out at
The waters of Jonesport-Beals are going to be the “guinea pigs” in a huge experiment. Are we willing to risk our heritage fisheries by allowing this experiment to go forward?
Foreign corporations didn’t used to be allowed to just move in and act as if they owned the place, but money changed hands at the
I worry Kingfish could pollute our bay for their own gain. We have no long-term research on what will happen to our bay if they are allowed to move forward and discharge 1,580 pounds of nitrogen a day into the water.
Alvin Beal and I lobster on the water and our son has started his livelihood as a lobsterman. I am really concerned that the Kingfish