MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • January 31, 2021
Norwegian company Global AS is proposing to place 30 sea pens, each 150 feet wide, on two leases, totaling 100 acres in the center of Frenchman Bay. The pens would support a projected annual production of about 66 million pounds of fish. This is an area daily plied by lobstermen, sailors and pleasure boaters. The salmon pens will present an obstacle to such use. Their “closed” status will not prevent the release of dissolved fish and food waste into the surrounding waters, and farmed fish are likely to escape the pens. To pursue development of a massive system utilizing untried technology in the shadow of Acadia National Park is to invite disaster. ~ Francis M. Weld, Northeast Harbor