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Industrial salmon farm proposal for Frenchman Bay draws local fire

“So many people around the bay have come together to try to fight this,” said Ted O’Meara,,,  American Aquafarms, a Norwegian company, has filed two draft lease applications,,,  Among the potential risks with the project, O’Meara said, was the prospect of pollution from “millions of gallons of effluent,” fish escapes, fish die-offs, fish disease that could impact other species, loss of commercial fishing grounds and “threats” to other small-scale aquaculture operations already taking place in the bay. >click to read< 11:10