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An application to lease two sites in Frenchman Bay for a closed pen aquafarm could result in production of 66 million pounds of salmon annually. But Maine’s coast shouldn’t be “a guinea pig” for “unproven” technology, said one local group.
American Aquafarms’ discharge estimates spark questions
GOULDSBORO Late last week, Hancock County residents got an abstract picture of how American Aquafarms would draw and discharge sea water and dispose of waste from its proposed operation in Frenchman Bay.
But when citizens asked, the Norwegian-backed company failed to specify by whom and exactly where in the world the closed-pen technology is being used in real time commercially to grow and successfully harvest Atlantic salmon for the global market.
At a three-hour-plus online public meeting last week, American Aquafarms Vice President Eirik Jors, Portland-headquartered Ransom Consulting Engineers and Scientists’ Senior Project Manager Elizabeth Ransom and civil engineer and computer modeler Nathan Dill provided a detailed blueprint showing how American Aquafarms would discharge a total of 2 billion gallons of circulated water (23,775 gallons per second) daily from the two 15-pen sites northwest of Long Porcupine Island
American Aquafarmsâ discharge estimates spark questions
GOULDSBORO â Hancock County residents late last week got an abstract picture of how American Aquafarms would draw and discharge sea water and dispose of waste from its proposed operation in Frenchman Bay.
But when citizens asked, the Norwegian-backed company failed to specify by whom and exactly where in the world the closed-pen technology is being used in real time commercially to grow and successfully harvest Atlantic salmon for the global market.
At a three hour-plus online public meeting last week, American Aquafarms Vice President Eirik Jors, Portland-headquartered Ransom Consulting Engineers and Scientistsâ Senior Project Manager Elizabeth Ransom and civil engineer and computer modeler Nathan Dill provided a detailed blueprint showing how American Aquafarms would discharge a total of 2 billion gallons of circulated water (23,775 gallons per second) daily from the two 15-pen sites northwest of Long Porcu
With aquaculture booming, it’s time to talk about its future in Maine
Input is needed from all stakeholders in an industry that could deeply affect Maine s coast.
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There is something wrong when you can’t even have a conversation in Maine without sending people into an uproar.
That is one of the many reasons Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Foundation (PMFHF) is supporting L.D. 1146. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Robert Alley who comes from a multigenerational fishing family in Jonesport and Beals, is well-crafted. If you are new to the aquaculture conflict, the foundation has been advocating for two years to examine the way the state is conducting oversight on in-water aquaculture leases, which are approved almost every time.