Seven years after publicly announcing plans for a huge land-based fish production facility on the Samoa Peninsula, Nordic Aquafarms quietly abandoned the project altogether.  Last month, Nordic CEO Charles Hostlund submitted paperwork to formally dissolve the company’s California-based affiliate. … Operations would have required more than 10 million gallons of seawater per day, plus roughly 2 million gallons per day of fresh water, which the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District (HBMWD) had agreed to provide. That agency has been in need of an industrial-scale customer since the pulp mills shut down, given California’s “use it or lose it” system of allocating water rights.