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🌱 How a Bar Harbor aquaculture ruling could ripple to Bucksport growers

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  • How a Bar Harbor aquaculture ruling could ripple to Bucksport growers

Today's riddle: Why do fish live in salt water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Friday: Mostly sunny and less humid, temps: high: 81, low: 53.
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• Aquaculture Lease Appeal Denied by Maine's Top Court. (barharborstory.com) — Maine's Supreme Judicial Court has upheld a 20-acre aquaculture lease off Bar Harbor, a decision that could influence mussel growers like the Bucksport business shown in the story's photo. After years of legal challenges over noise, environmental impacts, and agency authority, the court backed the Department of Marine Resources' conditions on the project, signaling continued growth and controversy for coastal aquaculture operations.
   

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