A new lease on life for working waterfront towns?
Downeast Maine community Machiasport recently celebrated a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Cooke Aquaculture salmon fish processing plant, according to a company press release posted on the online seafood industry site FIS.com.
The plant originally closed its doors in 2004 when the local decline in farmed salmon caused a drop in production. In 2006, the Canadian-based firm Cooke Aquaculture purchased two multi-national aquaculture firms and promised to work with the Maine state government to collaborate and maintain a viable aquaculture industry in the area. With the $6 million dollar restructuring of the plant, the family-run firm fulfilled that commitment, according to the announcement.
Maine governor John Baldacci praised the fish processing plant as a good example of private, state and local collaborative achievement.
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