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PublishedSeptember 27, 2022
Maine Voices: Don’t dismiss fish farms’ threat to our state’s coastal waters
Based on the risks to water quality and sea life, an application for two 60-acre salmon farms off Bar Harbor should be rejected.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2022
Maine Voices: Shellfish farms here and across America are being hammered by climate change
As shellfish aquaculture is thwarted by global warming, so are its social, environmental and economic benefits.
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PublishedJune 23, 2022
First Maine Oyster Festival coming to Freeport
The festival will give Freeport residents and guests a chance to sample shellfish from up and down Maine's coast.
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PublishedJune 23, 2022
State to reimburse 2022 license costs for fishing, aquaculture industries
The state will use $8.3 million in federal funds from the Consolidated Appropriations Act to reimburse the costs of commercial harvesting licenses and some fees.
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PublishedJune 15, 2022
Maine approves $63 million CMP power line upgrade over residents’ objections
Hundreds opposed the upgrade as benefiting a planned land-based salmon farm to be built in Belfast by Nordic Aquafarms, but regulators noted ongoing problems with the aging line.
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PublishedJune 8, 2022
FocusMaine appoints biotech advocacy leader as new president
The industry-funded workforce development group has chosen Dana O'Brien, a longtime biotech advocate, who will start June 15.
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PublishedMay 27, 2022
Frenchman Bay salmon farm developer sues state for spiking its lease application
The Portland company, funded by Norwegian investors, proposed raising 66 million pounds of Atlantic salmon annually and operating a fish processing plant.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2022
Planned Maine salmon farm closes on land for project in Belfast
Nordic Aquafarms wants to build a $500 million salmon farm in land-based tanks in Belfast.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2022
Pilot internship program aims to feed Maine’s growing aquatic farm industry
The aquaculture internship program will initially target students from Maine's community colleges, starting with the one in Washington County.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2022
As Maine’s climate changes, scallop farming offers optimism
Automation technology and farming techniques borrowed from more mature scallop fisheries as far away as Japan are giving some seafood harvesters a glimpse of a potentially profitable future.
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