BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 25, 2021
This year will be remembered in Maine, at least in part, as when interest in developing four large-scale fish farms on the state’s eastern coastline continued to intensify: Nordic Aquafarms in Belfast, Kingfish Maine in Washington County, American Aquafarms in Frenchman Bay, and Whole Oceans in Bucksport. It also will be remembered by some as yet another year during which — nearly four years since plans for the first proposal were announced — none of the four separate projects began construction. The projects are at various stages of the permitting process, with some being fully approved and others not yet having any permits. All have shied away from announcing specific timetables for when they hope to start to build.