American Aquafarms, an aquaculture start-up headquartered in Portland, has filed two draft lease applications with the Department of Marine Resources to begin development of closed-pen, ocean-based salmon operation in Downeast Maine.
The two proposed sites would be in Frenchman Bay, off the town of Gouldsboro to the east and Bar Harbor to the west.
Each site would be 60.3 acres. The pens at each site would take up about 6.6 acres.
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Courtesy / American Aquafarms, Ransom Consulting Engineers and Scientists
The rectangle at center represents one of American Aquafarms’ proposed lease sites in the water between Bar Harbor and Gouldsboro. A mooring system, to hold the pens in place, consists of two grid systems, each with two rows of four cages. All together, the mooring grid contains 15 pens and a waste barge.