BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 4, 2021
A fish aquaculture firm that hopes to grow salmon in pens in Frenchman Bay is on the verge of acquiring a former sardine cannery in the local village of Prospect Harbor, according to a company official. When the sale goes through, American Aquafarms will become the third owner of the plant in the past 11 years to promise to bring it back to life and dozens of jobs to town. The plant was the last sardine cannery in the United States when Bumble Bee Foods closed it down in 2010, and since then it has been used to process lobster by two different lobster companies.