BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 12, 2023
A former seafood processing plant in Gouldsboro is being put up for auction next month by a man hired two years ago to lead efforts to create an industrial salmon farm in Frenchman Bay. The shuttered cannery was acquired by American Aquafarms last year from East Coast Seafood, which had operated it for a few years as a lobster processing plant. Prior to that, it had been a sardine cannery for 100 years before being shuttered in 2010. The change in ownership and plan to auction the building comes on the heels of Decker’s resignation from his role as CEO. American Aquafarms owed Decker $1,125,000, the Ellsworth American newspaper reported.