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More than 125 boats form flotilla to protest Maine closed-pen salmon farm

American Aquafarms, a US company established by the founders of Norcod, is seeking the permits necessary to deploy as many as 30 salmon pens, each 150-feet wide

By Undercurrent News | Aug. 31, 2021 15:13 BST
A flotilla of more than 125 lobster vessels and pleasure craft in Maine's Frenchman Bay on August. 29, 2021 to protest the proposed building of a closed-pen Atlantic salmon facility. Photograph by Ted O'Meara.
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More than 125 boats, including several working lobster fishing vessels, participated in a flotilla in the US state of Maine's Frenchman Bay on Sunday to protest plans for a closed-pen Atlantic salmon farm [...]

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