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Eco-certifications BAP and GLOBAL.G.A.P. have dismissed formal complaints by conservation groups asking them to stop endorsing Macquarie Harbour salmon farms that are having a "catastrophic" impact on the endangered Maugean Skate.
An artwork Salmon Feast that draws attention to the damaging impact of industrial salmon farms in Tasmanian waters has won the $2000 first prize in the big annual art awards in the Huon Valley.
This week both Liberal and Labor have pledged unconditional support of the Salmon industry, currying favour amongst voters for the coming State election. Both major parties will continue supporting pollution of Hobart's drinking water catchment via flow through hatcheries, permit the continued evasion of corporate tax by the industry, in favour of...
Leading health media group Croakey Media leads with a strong article on NOFF's calls for health professionals not to recommend industrially-farmed Tasmanian salmon (there are alternatives). The well-researched article features extensive evidence citations and recommendations for further reading, and a video message from Jess Coughlan, NOFF...
Action to halt the outrageous misuse of antibiotics in the Atlantic salmon industry in Tasmania must be implemented urgently. Tasmania's peak marine protection body, TAMP, says there's now clear evidence that the multinational salmon companies have captured the Federal regulator of antibiotic use in animals.
Tasmania's major political parties must declare to voters whether they will continue to allow massive dumps of antibiotics by the salmon industry into public waters. News that hundreds of kilos of antibiotics have again been dumped into diseased salmon cages, resulting in wildfish harbouring antibiotic residues almost five times the legal limit,...
Tasmania's largest salmon company, Tassal, has revealed wild fish at one of its farms contained antibiotic residues at almost five times the allowed level. In another case, there were low-level antibiotic traces in wild fish caught more than seven kilometres from another Tassal salmon farm.
We cannot simply just swallow the salmon industry's spin – there is a better way. Being the best of the worst is nothing to crow about when it comes of fish farming, argues former EPA board member Louise Cherrie, writing in The Mercury, 21 February 2024 (paywalled):
