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

By: Slade Moore

Outlets: Maine Morning Star

Published: January 16, 2026

Words: 1,217

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 5 days ago

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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 Canada than Portland.

Driving south over the crest of the Beals Island Bridge reveals much about the community ahead. Modest homes dot Beals’ gently sloping uplands. Fishing piers and …

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