July 27, 2022 — The company behind a controversial fish farm planned for Frenchman Bay will drop its lawsuit against the state and plans to work to fix issues that sank its previous application earlier this year.
On Monday, attorneys for American Aquafarms, which has proposed growing as much as 60 million pounds of Atlantic salmon in net pens off Gouldsboro, filed a request in Cumberland County Superior Court to dismiss its case against the Maine Department of Marine Resources.
The company sued DMR in May after the department rejected its application due to the lack of a state-approved source for its salmon eggs.