BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 15, 2021
Whenever I show people the location of the American Aquafarms proposal to put an immense salmon farm near Acadia National Park their reaction is: What were they thinking? Followed by, how could they possibly do this? The short answer is, the developers came here to do what they couldn’t do back home in Norway. They couldn’t build this project in their own backyard, so they are trying to put it in our front yard — in a special place that attracts millions of visitors each year and makes a huge contribution to Maine’s tourism economy, not to mention the highly productive lobster fishing and mussel, kelp and oyster farming. I’ve fished these waters for more than 50 years. At least four large investor-backed companies have announced plans to raise huge amounts of fish in Maine. Three of the four projects are planning to raise fish on land. American Aquafarms is the outlier. t’s time we stand up for all that is special about the Maine coast and say no. Not here. Not now. Not ever. ~ Jerry Potter, Gouldsboro