Nordic Aquafarms

Nordic Aquafarms earlier this year dropped its bid to build an onshore salmon farm in the midcoast city.

After years of opposition and legal challenges, Nordic Aquafarms says it will stop pursuing its land-based salmon farm project in Belfast.

The Council voted to vacate an order it issued three years ago to take intertidal land by eminent domain to accommodate intake and discharge pipes for Nordic Aquafarms.

On Tuesday night the Belfast City Council will hold a public hearing to allow residents to weigh in on the city's move to take a parcel of intertidal land by eminent domain and nullify a conservation easement on that property.

Maine's highest court is ordering Belfast's zoning board to reconsider an appeal from a group that's challenging a proposed commercial fish farm.

Several pending court cases regarding eminent domain and conservation easements led to the state's decision.

On Thursday, Maine's Supreme Judicial Court ruled against Nordic Aquafarms and said the deeds make clear that the intertidal zone belongs to the neighbors.

The question of who owns the disputed mudflat is an important one, because it's where Nordic Aquafarms wants to lay the pipelines for its planned seawater intake and discharge system.

Maine's Department of Marine Resources is terminating the application for a controversial salmon farm proposed for Frenchman Bay, in the shadow of Acadia National Park.

A controversial land-based salmon farm proposed in Belfast won three key state environmental permits on Thursday, but opponents say they are far from…