At their town meetings on June 27, residents of Machiasport and Cutler will consider placing a 180-day moratorium on industrial-scale aquaculture developments, in order to then consider the creation of municipal aquaculture ordinances.

Letter calls into question whether aquaculture roadmap, in part directed by the Maine Aquaculture Association, is simply a promotional tool for large scale industrial aquaculture.

Maine's seafood haul in 2021 reached an all-time high value of $891 million.

According to recently updated data from the Maine Department of Marine Resources, 2021 was the most valuable year in the history of Maine's lobster fishery.

East Coast Seafood Group’s Chief Executive Officer, William Blais, confirmed late Friday that the company had sold to American Aquafarms its Maine Fair Trade Lobster property in the Gouldsboro village of Prospect Harbor.

Rep. Lynne Williams’ letter to Governor Janet Mills

A recent article in The Guardian describes how a report shows that "salmon farming is wreaking ruin" on marine ecosystems. This has serious financial costs as well as environmental costs.

The article goes on to explain how salmon farms in Scotland have seen a 4x increase in fish mortality, with sea lice to blame for at least one-fifth of the deaths, and probably more. While producers bear the costs of things like fish mortality and treatments for sea lice, the report also shows that there is a wider impact on the world, particularly environmentally.