The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Jacki Cassida is the Nordic Aquafarms community liaison. In an April 27 letter, Sally Brophy, a board member of the Belfast-based activist group, Upstream Watch, admonished Maine to “realize the consequences of industrial aquaculture.” She cited the failing of one aquafarm proposal to somehow relate it to all aquafarms, but especially Nordic Aquafarms.