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Tassal, Tasmania's largest salmon company, has revealed wild fish at one of its salmon farms contained antibiotic residues at almost five times the allowed level. There were low-level antibiotic traces in wild fish caught more than seven kilometres from another of their farms.
NOFF has written to the RSPCA accusing them of not following their Farming Standard and their Policy for Humane Killing. This follows massed salmon mortalities, and video evidence of Huon Aquaculture workers mishandling salmon.
Drone footage sourced by the Bob Brown Foundation was published by the ABC today, showing live fish at the South of Zuidpool Rock lease operated by Huon Aquaculture being smothered in a box with diseased carcasses. This raises major animal welfare concerns for the public, who place their trust in the RSPCA endorsement when purchasing endorsed...
Footage captured at Huon Aquaculture factory farms in Southern Tasmania has shown live fish pumped into a bin amongst piles of dead salmon and then sealed and left to suffocate. Footage has also captured more rotting chunks of salmon spilling out of the factory farm pens and into Tasmania's waterways.
There has been considerable public and media interest in recent correspondence between NOFF and the Tasmanian EPA. Some of the debate has lacked detail, and caused confusion. To ensure fairness and accuracy, for us and the EPA, here is the text of the most recent email from the EPA, and the text of our communications to them.
"We write to express our deep concern about your recent intervention to bypass Australia's environmental laws and introduce special legislation exempting the salmon farming industry in Tasmania's West Coast region."
In the first substantial email correspondence from the EPA to NOFF in just over two weeks since the biological pollution started washing up on beaches in Tasmania's South East, the Environmental Protection Authority has issued a new warning, advised by the Department of Health.
The Independent Federal Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will discuss the revelation today that the Tasmanian Government knows bugger all about the ongoing mass salmon die-off and seems to care even less.
