BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 11, 2021
Norwegian-owned American Aquafarms plans to place 30 floating pens, each 150 feet wide, for growing salmon at two sites in Frenchman Bay, if it can get approval from the Maine Department of Marine Resources. The firm also has an agreement to purchase the Maine Fair Trade Lobster plant in Gouldsboro if the project is approved, and to convert it into a salmon hatchery and processing plant. The project is one of four major aquaculture projects planned along Maine’s coast, and would be the only one of those four that would grow fish at sea. The others — proposed for Belfast, Bucksport and Jonesport — all would grow fish in large tanks on land.