Almost one year to the day after it received approval from the US Department of Marine Resources (DMR) for a 20-acre cod farm in Frenchman Bay, Great Bay Aquaculture of Maine, has apparently pulled up stakes and gone home, reports Fence Viewer.
Late in 2011, the company applied for a 10-year aquaculture lease that would allow it to raise up to 300,000 codfish in fish pens off the western side of Stave Island.
In 2009, the company won approval for a 10-year lease on about 35 acres off Preble Island, about 1.9