The founder of Maine-based seafood company Sea Hag Seafood continues to explore avenues to reopen the company’s processing plant, which was shuttered earlier this year on 30 April due to funding and maintenance issues.
Kyle Murdock – who purchased the processing plant located in Tenants Harbor, Maine with investors in 2012 – was able to postpone the auction of the facility scheduled for 17 June when he and Sea Hag agreed to place a USD 25,000 (EUR 22,500) lien on the property through the Maine Department of Environmental Protection to cover a penalty for violating the company’s wastewater discharge license, reported the Bangor Daily News.
Initially, the Department of Environmental Protection requested that USD 43,485 (EUR 39,182) be paid to make up for infractions committed against the permit issued for the property back in 2012 – the permit stipulated that Sea Hag must deliver electronic discharge monitoring reports each month to the Department of Environmental Protection, however, many of the reports were late and stopped being filed altogether by June 2015. This current consent agreement requires Murdock and the company to file those missing reports; the public is free to comment on the details of the agreement through 20 July.
Murdock is looking to re-establish processing at the site by some point next
“I’m talking with a number of people on possible new partnerships. There are still a lot of opportunities,” Murdock told the BDN.
Initial financing for Sea Hag’s processing project came from Camden National Bank, which negotiated a USD 1.7 million (EUR 1.53 million) loan, and the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, which gave a USD 400,000 (EUR 360,361) grant to the company. More information about the
