BREAKING NEWS:

WA Bans Commercial Net-Pen Fish Farming. Learn more.

Maine’s Largest Industrial Fish Farm Is Being Sued. Learn more.

What’s happening?

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.

Listen to Protect Maine’s attorney speak about home rule in the video below.

*Ordinance Approved By Residents of Cutler, November 8, 2022

*Ordinance Approved By Residents of waldoboro, june 20, 2023

*Ordinance Approved By Residents of PENOBSCOT, june 10, 2024

*PROTECT MAINE Ordinance Approved IN FULL By Residents of WINTER HARBOR, JUNE 18, 2024

*BEALS ORDINANCE IN PROGRESS

*MACHIASPORT ORDINANCE IN PROGRESS

read the community ordinances here:

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“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.”
— Waldoboro Town Manager

Watch the March 28, 2023 Waldoboro Select Board meeting.

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