by Nancy Beal

Maine Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy rejected a challenge to one of a handful of licenses Maine regulators have granted Kingfish Maine for a $100 million land-based fish farm on Jonesport’s eastern shore in an Aug. 23 ruling. 

The dismissal of the petition from the Roque Island Gardner Homestead Corporation and the Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative removes one of two legal barriers standing in the way of Kingfish breaking ground on its 100-acre site abutting the western side of Chandler Bay.