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Protests outside Woolworths stores in most Australian capital cities reached thousands of consumers today as campaigners called on the supermarket to stop stocking industrial Atlantic salmon from Tasmania's remote Macquarie Harbour.

Federal Minister Tanya Plibersek's department has announced that the assessment timeframe for deciding whether to list the endangered Maugean Skate as critically endangered has been extended by a year "to enable enough time to consider public comments and to finalise the assessment." This delay by Commonwealth scientists must not be used as an...

A meeting at Dodges Ferry in southern Tasmania on 27 October overwhelming endorsed a motion rejecting plans by multinational salmon farmer Petuna to install feedlots in the north of Storm Bay. In a standing-room only meeting in the town, about 170 people voted against salmon industry expansion off Frederick Henry Bay and near Betsy Island.

NOFF calls on Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to urgently announce the withdrawal of Atlantic salmon feedlots from Macquarie Harbour, with the weight of scientific opinion now fully behind the move.

Some of the nation's most eminent scientists have told Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek that salmon farming in Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour will cause an extinction, and failure to halt it would be unethical and indefensible, reports The Australian (23 October 2024, paywalled).

1,149,795 kilos (1,149 tonnes) of farmed salmon died last summer in Macquarie Harbour feedlots, according to figures released by the Tasmanian Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE). Neighbours of Fish Farming (NOFF) called on the companies and the government to disclose the causes of the mortalities, whether through overstocking,...

A new study published in Science Advances shows that the global aquaculture, including salmon farming, may rely on far more wild-caught fish than previously estimated.

A recent press release from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research said sea lice numbers have never been higher in northern Norway than they are now. "In the north, we saw an explosive increase and doubling of the number of louse larvae this summer," researcher Anne Dagrun Sandvik said.