Opportunity, controversy grow for Maine’s aquaculture industry

MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • November 7, 2021

Hundreds of Maine sea farms contribute to the state’s successful aquaculture industry, selling oysters, mussels, seaweed and salmon as fast as they can be grown. But as more farms have cropped up, so have coalitions and interest groups concerned about Maine’s coastline being overrun by industrial-size operations that pollute the state’s pristine waters and take valuable bottom from Maine’s iconic, nearly half-billion-dollar lobster industry.