Maine leading the way in seaweed farming, the new frontier of American agriculture

Maine leading the way in seaweed farming, the new frontier of American agriculture

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Deborah Bronk is the president and CEO of Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. From Eastport to Biddeford, a new kind of farming is transforming Maine’s working waterfronts. Seaweed farming, one of the fastest growing forms of aquaculture, is no longer a niche idea. It…