As the chairman and chief business officer for the Brunswick-based RAS Corporation, Ed Robinson says his company didn’t have to think twice about the potential of basing a fish-farming production facility at the site of the former naval surveillance operations center in Corea. He says it was already zoned by the governing town of Gouldsboro for aquaculture, has a potential work force familiar with marine-related industries and the necessary support infrastructure in place.??
“You simply have to look at the whole package here, and Corea would appear to offer a number of opportunities for us,” Robinson said.??
RAS has purchased an option on a seven-acre parcel and a 40,000-square foot building at the former Navy base that is surrounded by hundreds of acres administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
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