The budgeted funds were spent earlier than expected largely due to legal counsel needed to grapple with American Aquafarms’ plan to process Atlantic salmon and raise juvenile fish at the former Maine Fair Trade facility in Prospect Harbor.
GOULDSBORO Voters will decide whether to transfer up to $100,000 from unappropriated surplus to replenish the town’s depleted legal reserve account at a
GOULDSBORO Selectmen will hold a special town meeting Monday, Dec. 13, to get voters’ OK to transfer up to $100,000 from unappropriated surplus to the Selectmen will hold a special town meeting Monday, Dec. 13, to get voters’ OK to transfer up to $100,000 from unappropriated surplus to the town’s legal reserve account. The $20,000 budgeted for legal services this fiscal year has nearly been spent due in part due to American Aquafarms’ plan to make the Maine Fair Trade facility its base for a Frenchman Bay salmon farm.
Voters in the town of Gouldsboro, the state of Maine on the US Atlantic coast have placed a moratorium on large-scale fish farms until at least the next boreal spring. The vote took place during a special town meeting.