Greenhead Lobster, one of Maine’s biggest lobster dealers, wants to add aquaculture into its operations at its home base in the state’s busiest lobster port.

The Stonington-based company applied almost two years ago for an experimental lease from the state to raise American oysters in two unused former lobster pounds. A public hearing on the proposal is scheduled next month.

Owner Hugh Reynolds hopes the project will demonstrate a way to reuse abandoned lobster infrastructure and diversify working waterfronts around Hancock County while providing work in the slow season, he said Wednesday. While lobstermen and aquaculture operations have butted heads in Maine at times, growing within lobster pounds near the shore avoids the space conflicts that can arise on open water.

If the applica

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