Water Ceremony Held Near Site Of Proposed Aquaculture Farm Discharge Pipe In Penobscot Bay

MAINE PUBLIC • August 20, 2021

About 50 people gathered on the shorefront of Belfast on Friday to join a Penobscot Nation elder's ceremony honoring Penobscot Bay. The event aimed to highlight opposition to a land-based salmon farm that would discharge effluent into the bay. Penobscot Nation elder Kathy Paul and friends sang a song of welcome for her ancestors and for the gathering, maybe 100 yards from where Nordic Aquafarms wants to place a pipe to carry effluent to the bay. State and federal environmental regulators have approved the project, but a vocal contingent of local opponents is fighting on, with the focus now on a court battle over ownership of the intertidal area where the outflow pipe would be located.