More Maine towns assert authority over aquaculture, but is it legal or sustainable? • Maine Morning Star

More Maine towns assert authority over aquaculture, but is it legal or sustainable? • Maine Morning Star

Thirty-three aquaculture leases were approved in 2025, a 27% increase over the previous five-year average of 24. (Photo by Maryann Flick/Getty Images)Beals is a visually stunning place, an archipelago ripe with the kind of Instagram-ready seaside and working waterfront scenes that draw summer-long crowds to southern Maine destinations. But dangling like a pendant from the Downeast coast, it’s far closer by distance and tradition to maritime Cana…