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The Tasmanian Alliance for Marine Protection (TAMP) has called on the Tasmanian EPA to immediately reveal its reasons for renewing licences for industrial salmon companies to continue operating in Macquarie Harbour. Licences expired today and were immediately renewed, ignoring the majority of Tasmanians who now oppose the industry operating...
That the Federal Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, has accepted her clear legal obligation to review industrial salmon operations in Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour is welcome but is not enough to deal with the clear and present danger of extinction of the Maugean skate.
NOFF launches a national campaign, UnCage Our Seas, at a public meeting at the Hobart Town Hall.
The sweeping move to financialise the protection of nature with markets and 'private investment' as another means to sidestep regulation and government spending is just as concerning as the standard tactic of waving around dodgy economic modelling and exaggerated jobs figures, which has long been a favourite and effective tactic of the mining...
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 100,000 times on social media within days of being rolled out.
Icelandic singer Björk has condemned industrial salmon farming in open pens as "extraordinarily cruel". Björk said Norwegian companies Mowi and SalMar were damaging "large areas of our fjords, marine life, animals and plants . . . Industrial salmon farming in open enclosures is horrible for the environment. Farmed salmon go through immense...
Community groups impacted by industrial salmon production in Tasmania have called on the state government to revoke industry licences and leases in nearby waterways.
The London Times (12 November 2023, paywalled) reports that RSPCA Assured in the UK received almost £700,000 (A$1.3 million) last year for giving its approval to salmon farms.
