A Connecticut startup company is looking to establish a local presence while getting into the high-end seafood market.
Palom Aquaculture LLC is applying to town, state and federal officials for permits to build and operate a land-based salmon farm on former Navy property in the village of Corea.
Bryan Woods, a partner in the firm who will oversee operations at the facility, said Friday that local officials have given their initial approval to the proposal but are waiting to receive design blueprints for a building that would be on-site before they issue a building permit.
Woods said Palom is planning to acquire two lots where the Navy used to have an antenna, which was known locally as the “elephant cage,” that was used as part of operations at Schoodic Point before the base shut down in 2002. Hundreds of acres of surrounding land are part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge.
The aquaculture firm is hoping to construct a building roughly 125 feet by 330 feet on the former Navy property, Woods said. Palom Aquaculture also has applied to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permits to extract water from and to discharge it back into nearby Prospect Harbor.
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