Originally published in The Boston Globe
I was chairman of a committee in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, which fought against the creation of a large fish farm in Linekin Bay. The state officials written about in this article are the very same ones we dealt with 10 years ago. We were very disappointed in discovering that they were not willing to do the research necessary to make an informed decision about the fish farm (in our case halibut). So, we had to do it ourselves. We employed a scientist from the University of Maine in Orono who was a specialist in water quality. We succeeded in stopping it, but it was not easy.
Alan Fisher
Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and Bedford