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Terms of reference in salmon study a bad joke

28/10/2025

Neighbours of Fish Farming (NOFF) completely rejects the Terms of Reference for the Government's "enquiry into the salmon farming industry." The Tasmanian Government has shocked and angered community groups with its Terms of Reference for the promised salmon study.

Prohibited from making recommendations for the Government or industry, the study is a waste of time and taxpayers' money.

The lack of any attempt to remedy the many urgent problems will cause greater community alarm and protest. This proposed study fails to reflect overseas best practice, which is to remove the industry pens from sheltered and shallow waterways. It will fail to save Tasmania's critically-endangered red handfish from extinction.

"This thoroughly inadequate and offensive proposal is simply more time and money wasted by the Rockliff government while communities await the next predictable disaster to unfold.
"it's time for action and radical changes to the management of Tasmanian waterways".