More Oysters In Bagaduce Are Less Than Popular In Penobscot

PENOBOSCOT — A proposal to grow more than 3 million oysters in Northern Bay is stirring more concern about expanding aquaculture on the Bagaduce River.

Early this month, the Taunton Bay Oyster Co. and the Department of Marine Resources held a scoping session at the Penobscot Elementary School on the company’s plan to apply for a lease to grow oysters on as many as three sites covering about 24.92 acres in all. For the past several years, the company has farmed oysters on a variety of sites — currently numbering four that cover just less than 28 acres — in Taunton and Hog bays.

About 30 to 40 people were on hand as company President Michael Briggs outlined plans involving several possible alternative sites along a stretch of the Bagaduce more or less between Bridges Point on the north and Gravel Island on the south.

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