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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...

NOFF welcomes positive news that the Federal Environment minister is taking the potential extinction of the Maugean skate in Macquarie Harbour seriously. But NOFF urges Tanya Plibersek to act quickly and not to order a drawn-out reëxamination of the science that already clearly indicates the Atlantic salmon industry is the main driver of the threat...