BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 21, 2025
A local conservation group that opposed the effort to build a salmon farm in Belfast has entered a contract to purchase 54 acres along the Little River where the project would have been located. Nordic Aquafarms first announced its plans for the $500 million fish farm in 2018 and abandoned the project in January after years of opposition and lawsuits from Belfast-area residents. It then put its land up for sale for $2 million. Upstream Watch, one of the groups that went to court to fight Nordic over the project, announced Monday morning that it had entered the contract to buy the property on Route 1. The group is now working to keep the land permanently conserved.