PORTSMOUTH — Less than a week before preliminary plans for a proposed aquaculture farm in the Sakonnet River were to be discussed during a Harbor Commission meeting, the application has been withdrawn.

Aquidneck Island residents Connor Eaton and Sam Gorton had proposed a two-acre oyster and bay scallop aquaculture lease off the shore between Immokolee Drive and Homestead Lane.

A preliminary determination aquaculture application before the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) was to be discussed during the town’s Harbor Commission meeting at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 6.

The meeting was originally scheduled at the Portsmouth Police Department before being moved to Town Hall. However, on Thursday, July 31, Gorton e-mailed Benjamine Goetsch, CRMC aquaculture coordinator, to

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