Communities up and down the coast of Maine are making their voices heard on industrial scale aquaculture.
Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Foundation is supporting communities who want to chart their own destiny around the future of industrial scale aquaculture. Protect Maine has provided legal language regarding home rule and a town’s authority to set its own course. The moratorium, ordinance, and our home rule position can be found on this page.
Below are the resources you need if your community wants to act or if you have questions, please call us at 207 615 5968 or email us at protectmaine@gmail.com.
Listen to Protect Maine’s attorney speak about home rule in the video here.
communities taking action
*Ordinance Approved By Residents of lubec, august 6, 2025.
READ THE ORDINANCE LANGUAGE HERE.
*BEALS moratorium approved in 2024.
*harpswell harbor & waterfront ordinance approved by residents, june 10, 2025.
read the ordinance language here.
*2024 Gouldsboro land based aquaculture ordinance.
read the ordinance language here. SEE ITEM 19.
*PROTECT MAINE Ordinance Approved IN FULL By Residents of WINTER HARBOR, june 18, 2024. READ THE ORDINANCE LANGUAGE HERE.
*Ordinance Approved By Residents of PENOBSCOT, june 10, 2024.
read the ordinance language here.
*Ordinance Approved By Residents of waldoboro, JUNE 20, 2023.
READ THE ORDINANCE LANGUAGE HERE.
*Ordinance Approved By Residents of Cutler, NOVEMBER 8, 2022.
READ THE ORDINANCE LANGUAGE HERE.
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Thank you to our Supporters!
If you’d like your name added to this list as a supporter of PMFHF, email us at protectmaine@gmail.com
“For some towns, it was infringement upon the waterway where they can’t get down the waterways like they used to, or they can’t utilize the waterways for recreational boating. It’s concern about the environment, it’s concern about taking away fishing grounds from lobstermen, it’s about elvering, it’s about pogies, it’s about all kinds of things. Every town has a different take on what’s important to them.”
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