Fish Farms Out Now Flotilla 11 March
03/03/2024
Join the "Salmon Out" flotilla 11.30am, Monday, March 11
Events
NOFF goes national with UnCage Our Seas campaign, northern NSW and SE Queensland, December 1 - 9
22/11/2023
NOFF is taking the UnCage Our Seas campaign on the road to end toxic salmon. First events are in northern NSW and SE Queensland. Further events coming soon to cities and regional areas through 2024.
Hobart Town Hall 29 November 2023
21/11/2023
NOFF has launched a nationwide advertising campaign in the run up to Christmas, alerting mainland consumers to false marketing of Tasmanian-produced Atlantic salmon as "clean, green, sustainable and healthy". The advertising blitz had already been viewed more than 200,000 times on social media within days of being rolled out.
UN asks Albanese government about salmon farming damaging Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area
28/04/2024
UNESCO has asked the Albanese government to answer claims that salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour is damaging the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Environment groups wrote to UNESCO claiming that reduced water oxygen levels linked to fish farming were pushing the endangered Maugean skate to extinction. The Weekend Australian (paywalled)...
Tasmania's largest salmon company used a controversial antibiotic to control a potentially deadly fish disease just weeks before Premier Jeremy Rockliff called the state election, but the company and government made no public announcement at the time, reports the Tasmanian Inquirer.
New York sues JBS for consumer greenwashing
10/04/2024
New York is suing JBS, the world's biggest meat company and owner of Huon Aquaculture, for misleading customers about its climate commitments. Letitia James's lawsuit accuses JBS of deceiving customers about being climate-friendly – and the implications could be far-reaching, reports The Guardian.