Business & Development

The Eastport Port Authority has taken a significant step forward in finally being able to export wood chips through the port with agreements that will allow for the completion of the phytosanitation equipment necessary to export into the European market.

Step into the Lubec Brewing Company, and the warm wall colors, twinkling lights and comfortable furniture give a generous welcome. It's a microbrewery with a line-up of craft beers that use hops grown by local farmers and organic grains grown in Maine.

Lobster fishermen in New Brunswick continue to reap the benefits of strong catches and a good price, following the opening of the season on November 8. They also note that the lobsters have been of higher quality this year.

Millennium Marine USA and the boatbuilding company's owner, Cory Guimond, are proceeding with a lawsuit against the City of Eastport concerning its leasing of the city-owned former Guilford mill building, according to the company's attorney, Joseph Baldacci of Bangor.

Farmed salmon production in Maine, which dropped off after the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) outbreaks more than 15 years ago but has slowly grown back, could double if Cooke Aquaculture is successful in using an environmentally friendly process to remove sea lice from the fish.

Two years after first breaking ground, St. Croix Tissue held a formal grand opening ceremony on August 31 in Baileyville, just outside the facility that now hosts two state-of-the-art automated tissue machines.