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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.
UNESCO has asked the Albanese government to answer claims that salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour is damaging the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. Environment groups wrote to UNESCO claiming that reduced water oxygen levels linked to fish farming were pushing the endangered Maugean skate to extinction. The Weekend Australian (paywalled)...
Tasmania's largest salmon company used a controversial antibiotic to control a potentially deadly fish disease just weeks before Premier Jeremy Rockliff called the state election, but the company and government made no public announcement at the time, reports the Tasmanian Inquirer.
New York is suing JBS, the world's biggest meat company and owner of Huon Aquaculture, for misleading customers about its climate commitments. Letitia James's lawsuit accuses JBS of deceiving customers about being climate-friendly – and the implications could be far-reaching, reports The Guardian.
