When I sat down with Parisian filmmaker Christophe Herreros in Southport last week, he was concerned about the absence of fog since his arrival from Paris May 12. The absence of fog is usually not a big deal for visitors to the coast of Maine. But.
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A Portland-based fishery group is expressing concerns about the proposed site and size of a salmon farm in waters off Gouldsboro.
Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Foundation said the area proposed by American Aquafarms, in Frenchman’s Bay, is heavily fished by lobstermen.
American Aquafarms is an aquaculture startup backed by a Norwegian investor that has under contract the purchase of the 100,000-square-foot Maine Fair Trade Lobster processing facility in Gouldsboro. The company hopes to develop a salmon-farming operation there.
American Aquafarms was launched in Portland last year by Mikael Rones, CEO of Global AS, which is based in Trondheim, Norway. The proposal calls for building a salmon hatchery as well as farming and processing facilities on the site and operate closed deep-water pens for raising fish.
Desert Harvest packs their bags and moves from North Carolina to Ellsworth. Author: Peggy Keyser (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 12:24 PM EST January 11, 2021 Updated: 12:24 PM EST January 11, 2021
ELLSWORTH, Maine We often hear about the state of Maine wanting to attract new businesses to move here – it’s good for the economy and can mean new jobs for our workforce. But how does that happen? In the case of a company called Desert Harvest – it happened because of a show of hands. Heather Florio is the CEO of Desert Harvest – which used to be based in North Carolina. When she decided her company needed to move - they had plenty of places to choose from – but all the pieces fell in to place to bring them to Downeast Maine.
Ohad Maiman reveals the Maine drivers behind the Kingfish Company’s expansion
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Ohad Maiman is the co-founder and CEO of The Kingfish Company, which is seeking to become one of the foremost innovators of technology-driven aquaculture and to establish a position as a market leader in the sustainable production of premium marine seafood, according to the company’s mission statement.
Founded in the Zeeland province of The Netherlands in 2015, the company started production of kingfish, or yellowtail, in a bespoke recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) in Kats, The Netherlands, with an annual production of 600 metric tons (MT). Building on its initial success, The Kingfish Company is now ramping up production at the Kats facility to an expected 5,000 MT annually by 2021. The firm has also chosen the U.S. state of Maine as the site of a new RAS facility it plans to build by 2021 to launch its expansion into the United States. If all goes according to plan, it should be