BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 22, 2021
The Maine Department of Marine Resources has withdrawn its application for a lease to raise Atlantic salmon off Cutler as part of an effort to restore the species. After a three hour meeting with the town’s Select Board earlier this month, the department’s Bureau of Sea Run Fisheries and Habitat decided to pull the aquaculture application after learning that the community still had outstanding concerns, largely around the potential impacts to fishing and navigation. They had proposed four floating net pens for an area west of Little River Island in Cutler Harbor.