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Maine terminates closed salmon pen application over egg sourcing issues

The reason given by DMR is that the company 'failed to fulfill its legal obligation to demonstrate an available source of fish to be cultivated at its proposed salmon farms in Frenchman Bay'

By Jason Huffman | April 20, 2022 22:43 BST
Mikhael Roenes, founder of American Aquafarms. Photograph courtesy of American Aquafarms.
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The US state of Maine's  Department of Marine Resources (DMR) announced late Wednesday (April 20) that it has terminated the applications submitted by American Aquafarms to build a closed pen Atlantic salmon farm in an area of water near Acadia National Park [...]

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