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World renowned author and anti-salmon farming activist Alexandra Morton to give special presentation for Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory
Frenchman Bay United, an umbrella organization representing five stakeholder groups – Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Foundation, Friends of Eastern Bay, Friends of Frenchman Bay, Friends of Schoodic Peninsula and Save the Bay – is partnering with the MDI Biological Laboratory to bring Morton’s story and lessons learned to Maine.
DEP Details on American Aquafarms Meeting
MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED FOLLOWING DEP STATEMENT ON FISH DIE-OFF AT BLACK ISLAND
Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Executive Director Crystal Canney said, “So the obvious question is – what killed the fish? You won’t find answers in the statement issued today, and we are still waiting to hear from the Department of Marine Resources (DMR), the primary regulating agency on net pen salmon. DMR was very quick to say that it was a dissolved oxygen issue, but the DEP has already ruled that out in its statement today.”
Maine DEP looking into salmon die-off at Black Island farm
“Maine has set the table to bring industrial scale and environmentally polluting large scale industrial aquaculture to the state and it’s wrong,” Canney said. “If DMR cannot manage Black Island, how in God’s name are they going to be able to manage a foreign corporation coming in here with big money, with the potential to expand to 1000 acres.”
Salmon 'die-off' incident raises concerns about the state's future in large-scale aquaculture
Atlantic Right Whales On The Ropes: Is Lobstering The Problem?
“This is incredulous,” says Crystal Canney, executive director of Protect Maine’s Fishing Heritage Foundation (PMFHF). “The whale deaths are not in Maine at the hands of Maine lobstermen…instead of saving right whales, what this decision has done is endanger not only the livelihoods of many of our lobstermen and women but also their lives,” she adds.
HUGE SALMON DIE-OFF NEAR MDI LEAVES MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
A massive die-off of farm raised salmon, in pens off Black Island in late August, has prompted a series of questions to state regulators, from groups concerned about the impact of industrial-scale aquaculture on coastal Maine waters. Black Island is a few miles south of Bass Harbor on Mount Desert Island.