Nordic Aquafarms’ right-of-way trial to begin next week

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 19, 2021

Nearly two years after the first legal volleys were lobbed in the fight to determine whether Nordic Aquafarms has a clear right of way across a Belfast mudflat, the parties will finally have their day in court. The civil right, title and interest lawsuit filed by Jeffrey Mabee, Judith Grace and Friends of the Harriet L. Hartley Conservation Area against defendants Nordic Aquafarms and Janet and Richard Eckrote is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at Waldo County Superior Court in Belfast and may not finish until June 25. At dispute is who actually owns the sliver of intertidal zone next to the Eckrotes’ house.