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US shellfish company faces protest over 40-acre oyster farm plans

The Mere Point Oyster Co. is dealing with local resistance in its efforts to build a new 1.5 million oyster farm in the US state of Maine

By Undercurrent News | Nov. 13, 2018 16:15 GMT
Oyster tumbling equipment at Mere Point's current operation. Photograph from Mere Point Oyster Co's Facebook page.
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The Mere Point Oyster Co. in the US state of Maine has submitted an application to expand to a new 40-acre lease, which would increase the scale of the currently unassuming quarter-acre operation by 160 times, reports The Times Record. [...]

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