Maine regulators plan to make a decision about a large salmon farm after they take the last of the public comments about the proposal. Read More
A Belfast judge told opponents of a proposed land-based fish farm to stop filing lawsuits aimed at stalling the project, invoking a law that is more commonly used to protect activists than corporations. Read More
About 250 aquaculture farmers, researchers, students and others convened at the University of Maine’s Hutchinson Center on Friday to explore the possibilities of the growing industry. Read More
Emotions ran high as people who felt strongly about Nordic Aquafarms shared their hopes and fears with the Belfast Planning Board about the company’s plans to construct a $500 million land-based salmon fish farm near the Little River. Read More
Belfast Planning Board will hold its final public hearing on Wednesday as it prepares to deliberate on five pending permit applications for Nordic Aquafarms’ proposed land-based salmon farm here. Read More
Three companies announced intentions or advanced plans for land-based fish operations along the state’s jagged coastline in 2019. Read More
The value of a mudflat could be more than anyone would think. Read More
Here is a brief primer for those who want to learn more about the project. Read More
“What you have before you is clearly a conflict of opinions from lawyers, surveyors, property owners and heirs as to what the rights are and are not in the one area of contention, which is the intertidal zone." Read More
As Trudy Miller of Northport listened to the debate over Belfast’s proposed land-based salmon farm that has roiled the community for a year and a half, she started to feel as if something important was being overlooked: the economy. Read More
The tour took them through boggy fields, into piney woods and across Route 1 to the waterfront property where the salmon farm will be built if the project is permitted and moves forward. Read More
A Superior Court judge has ruled that the city of Belfast did not violate the law when officials amended the city’s land use plan in April 2018 to allow the Nordic Aquafarms project to move forward. Read More
Until recently, the battle for public opinion about the fish farm has seemed dominated by opponents. Lately, though, midcoast residents who feel positively about the project have begun to make their voices heard. Read More
Belfast Mayor Samantha Paradis will not run for re-election. Read More
The Dutch entrepreneur who would like to build a land-based yellowtail fish farm somewhere in Maine said that the relentless opposition that some have shown to Nordic Aquafarms’ proposed Belfast salmon farm has made him proceed here with caution. Read More
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection decided Thursday that Nordic Aquafarms’ pending permit applications are complete for processing. Read More
Millinocket could be the next place in Maine to spawn an aquafarm as part of a fledgling but potentially lucrative industry of growing Atlantic salmon in land-based fish tanks. Read More
Genetically engineered salmon is heading to store shelves in the U.S., but it won't be coming from Maine's fish farms. Read More
