RSPCA disendorsement another nail in industrial salmon’s coffin

20/03/2025

Neighbours of Fish Farming is elated at the RSPCA's decision to finally cease endorsing a toxic and ruthless industry. NOFF has been calling on the RSPCA to remove their certification of Huon Aquaculture for several years. The recent footage of live salmon being thrown into bins alongside dead fish and left to suffocate and die a terrible death has shocked a great many who care about animals.

It's a decision that's been a long-time coming, and is the result of the dedication and diligence of NGOs and communities around Tasmania. It's a decision that we hope will spread around the country that the industrial salmon industry is not to be trusted. It is not clean and green. It does not put animal welfare above greed and profit. The millions of salmon that have died from disease in recent weeks is irrefutable evidence.

With hotter summers every year, and unstoppable rising water temperatures, this industry is destined to fail. Huon Aquaculture's unsustainable practices, and the blatant disregard by its CEO's for animals and our environment has united Tasmanians around the isle.

"It's five years that NOFF has been asking the RSPCA to remove their endorsement of a ruthless, multi-national industry that only cares about profit,' says Lisa Litjens, acting NOFF President. "We've had carcasses washing up on beaches, and millions of fish dying: this is not an industry that cares about animals."
"Self-reporting was never going to work," says Jess Coughlan, NOFF campaigner. "This is not an industry, by a long shot, that has world's best practice."