House rejects pilotage-exemption for Bar Harbor–Yarmouth passenger ferry The Maine House voted down a motion to recede and concur on a bill that would exempt passenger ferry service between Bar Harbor and Yarmouth, N.S., from pilotage requirements after lawmakers debated whether the proposal amounted to a taxpayer subsidy for an out-of-state operator.

Maine lawmakers sparked a fiery debate over a failed bill that could have provided a pilotage exemption for a passenger ferry service, raising questions about taxpayer dollars and corporate influence.

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