Photographer Tristan Spinski took the photos that accompany Mary Pols’ story on Maine aquaculture, “Reaping What They Sow,” in our April/May 2017 issue. The images of Maine aquaculturists farming clams, oysters, and salmon in the coastal mist and muck were too good not to share this bonus gallery of shots that didn’t make the magazine.
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A heron visits the floating oyster cages at Tim Johnson’s Greenboat Oyster Company farm in Middle Bay.Farmed clams from the Heal Eddy Restoration Project in Georgetown.Chris Warner, a life-long shellfish harvester, at the Heal Eddy Restoration Project in Georgetown.Cooke Aquaculture’s Black Island salmon farm boasts an automated feeding system that pipes food to each pen and streams a live, underwater video feed.Tied up the Black Island salmon farm off of Mount Desert Island in Maine, operated by Cooke Aquaculture.Russ Sprague, site manager for Cook Aquaculture’s Black Island salmon farm, pilots the boat around the salmon farm.Chris Warner at the Heal Eddy Restoration Project in Georgetown.John Holt, riparian land owner at Heal Eddy.The National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center, in Franklin, is home to the breeding program for Maine’s salmon farming sector.“There are only so many tides in a man’s back,” said Heal Eddy’s Chris Warner.The National Cold Water Marine Aquaculture Center in Franklin breeds salmon stock for aquaculture operations such as Cooke Aquaculture.Jonny Gilbert, right, and Tim Johnson, work at Johnson’s newly-formed, floating oyster farming operation off of Simpson’s Point in Brunswick.John Holt makes his way across the tidal flats to the Heal Eddy Restoration Project, adjacent to his land.A farmed clam from the Heal Eddy Restoration Project in Georgetown.Nelly observes shellfish data collection at the Heal Eddy Restoration Project in Georgetown.Maine’s salmon-farming industry is more consolidated, but also more environmentally responsible than in its early days.
