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Neighbours of fish farming is calling out apparent EPA complicity in the coverup of a horrific incident in the Huon and Channel area salmon farms, where putrid greasy material has washed up on beaches and a marine protected area.

Bruny Island residents have supplied Bob Brown Foundation with shocking new images of salmon fat landing on their pristine beaches with the morbid addition of whole salmon carcasses washing ashore.

Recently-retired director of the Tasmanian EPA, Wes Ford, said today that the public could take steps to avoid antibiotics from farmed salmon cropping up in wild fish.

Local residents at Verona Sands, south east Tasmania, reported their beach and the nearby Ninepins marine reserve fouled by masses of stinking white lumps of fish-smelling pollution. NOFF has received many first hand accounts, and done our own investigations.

Despite promises of increased regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), three major environmental issues with salmon farms have been picked up in three days by Neighbours of Fish Farming (NOFF).

Bob Brown Foundation has captured horrific images and video of thousands of dead farmed salmon being pumped out of their factory farm cages at a Tassal owned fish farm lease called Creeses Mistake, on the Tasman Peninsula. The footage comes on the heels of mass deaths being reported all around the state only weeks ago (see below).

The Prime Minister's announcement today to change environmental legislation in favour of industrial activity will not be possible to deliver before a new government is formed. "To alter environmental legislation designed to protect nature, and weaken the EPBC Act, is a calculating promise to buy Tasmanian votes, not just in Macquarie Harbour, but...

NOFF has denounced Huon Aquaculture's latest use of antibiotics in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel, describing the practice as unacceptable and accusing the company of falling short of contemporary international standards, according to a report in the Hobart Mercury (paywalled).