BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 30, 2023
A Superior Court judge has dismissed a legal challenge to the state’s approval of a fish farm planned for Jonesport, but the company behind the farm won’t begin construction just yet. In a ruling last week, Justice Michaela Murphy determined that the state Board of Environmental Protection did not err when it upheld the state’s approval of Kingfish Maine’s application to discharge treated wastewater from the planned land-based fish farm into Chandler Bay. There still is a pending court appeal in Washington County of the town’s approval of the project. Kingfish officials have said they will wait until the legal challenges are resolved before they start work on the $110 million project, which is expected to result in the creation of roughly 70 full-time jobs at the fish farm.