PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 20, 2021
The world is waking up to why in-water fish pens are bad news. Maine is just begging to flirt with finfish aquaculture and its perils. American Aquafarms is looking to build the largest ocean-based farm in North America. It uses a new technology – what the firm misleadingly calls “closed pens” or “eco-pens.” They are neither, and they have never been used on this scale before. Maine will be ground zero, and if we allow this green-washed, environmental calamity, this technology will propagate down the Maine coast and throughout the world. Let’s not allow Maine to become the testing grounds for an industry that’s so dirty many regions worldwide rejected it after confronting hard-earned truths of environmental and economic disaster. ~ Henry Sharpe, Frenchman Bay United