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News that Tasmania's largest farmed salmon producer, Tassal, shot and killed 53 native birds trapped in substandard feedlot netting has outraged coastal communities in the state. Tassal, owned by Canada's Cooke Aquaculture, received permission from the state's environmental authority to shoot great cormorants after 641 found their way through the...
36 great cormorants died after becoming entangled in bird netting, and 53 were legally shot by Tassal staff, who had been granted permits by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment. The Tasmanian government approved the shooting after substandard netting allowed hundreds of the birds to enter fish cages at a salmon farm near Hobart.
A combination of natural events may have given Macquarie Harbour a temporary reprieve from its health crisis but the Maugean skate remains under threat of extinction and the need for urgent action remains.
In a first for the new Tasmanian Parliament, cross-bench MPs and Parties have joined forces in calling for a full, independent and transparent inquiry into the state's EPA. Community group, NOFF, sought the MPs' support amidst mounting concerns about the EPA's role in monitoring and regulating the state's natural heritage on land and in water.
The Japan Times reports that fermented herring, a Swedish delicacy, holds such a special place in the country's culture that national newspapers review each year's vintage and the first sale of the year receives hype akin to the first Beaujolais of the season. It's also an acquired taste; social media videos abound of brave folks trying a food...
76 environmental, community, and animal welfare groups, including NOFF, expose the farce that is the Global Seafood Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practice standards, and conclude, with evidence, that the standard is little more than an industry-established and dominated marketing scheme that functions to protect the salmon farming industry.
Does salmon have an image problem? Not just in Tasmania. During a round table discussion at the North Atlantic Seafood Forum in Bergen on Wednesday 6 March, northern hemisphere leaders came together to address the industry's image problem.
A comprehensive investigation into the Tasmanian government's failures to rein-in the Atlantic salmon industry in Macquarie Harbour and protect from extinction the 60-million-year-old Maugean skate is out on the newsstands around Australia today as the cover story in The Monthly.
