BUCKSPORT — A company planning New England’s first indoor salmon farm in Maine has received the final permit required before construction.
Whole Oceans plans to build the facility in Bucksport along the Penobscot River on the site of a former paper mill.
Town Manager Susan Lessard says the local government will meet with company engineers to review construction plans.
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As construction for a land-based salmon farm in Bucksport waits to get underway, the parent company behind the project is engaged in a legal battle with a consultant that it fired. …
The proposed land-based Atlantic salmon recirculating aquaculture facility on about 100 acres along the Penobscot River would be one of the largest land-based aquaculture projects in the world, according to Whole Oceans. It received approval from the Bucksport Planning Board in 2019 and the green light from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection later that year. …
Whole Oceans has closed on the sale of property at the former Verso paper mill site where it plans to will raise Atlantic salmon. …
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