Tasmania's waterways & marine life under threat

Foreign-owned Atlantic salmon companies are releasing tonnes of antibiotics, chemicals, feed waste and faeces into waterways. Unique native species on the brink of extinction.

Urgent action needed

Their farmed salmon tests antibiotic resistant, contains trans-fats and ethoxiquin banned by the EU in 2017 due to human and environmental health concerns, yet still allowed in Australia and New Zealand. 

The million upon millions of  industrial salmon they create suffocates marine life and habitat, as tonnes of antibiotics dump into waterways to treat salmon disease, and harmful algae spreads fuelled by salmon faeces. 

Mass salmon die offs from sickness, warming waters and oxygen deprivation results in rotten and decomposing salmon contaminating beaches and bays. 

A paradise lost. Around the clock industrial operations ruin quiet coastal communities with noise and light pollution.

TASMANIA is the jewel of the Great Southern Ocean, a unique wilderness of astonishingly beautiful bays, inlets, beaches and rivers with incredible wildlife; a genuine treasure island. But these treasures are under threat.

It's a 60 million year old relic from the age of the dinosaurs. Found nowhere else in the world, Macquarie Harbour its last known habitat. The government must stop letting the multinational salmon industry send the Maugean Skate toward extinction!