Nordic Aquafarms is now evaluating its options in the wake of a Maine Supreme Judicial Court decision that removed the company’s access to intertidal land crucial to its plans.
In a 16 February ruling, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court found the plaintiffs in the case against Nordic Aquafarms – Jeffrey R. Mabee and Judith B. Grace – were correct in their original assertion they are the owners of the intertidal land. The results mean that Nordic Aquafarms, barring further developments, no longer has rights to the land it planned to use to route inflow and outflow pipes for its planned salmon recirculating aquaculture system in Belfast, Maine, U.S.A.
In a statement to SeafoodSource, Nordic Aquafarms said it “always recognized this could be a possible outcome.”
“At this juncture, Nordic will be …
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