BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 26, 2021
As other large-scale aquaculture projects along the Maine coast continue to come up against opposition, Whole Oceans has basically everything it needs to start work at the old Verso paper mill site. But it hasn’t. 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. It received approval from the Bucksport Planning Board in 2019 and the green light from the Maine DEP later that year. The project has also enjoyed local support. Yet, despite this wealth of approvals and lack of opposition, ground hasn’t been broken at the old mill and town officials said they don’t really have any indication of when it may start.