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A new poll released by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) shows 76 percent of U.S. voters support expanding open ocean aquaculture in a sustainable, environmentally responsible way. A further 82 percent of surveyed voters said research can help ensure the safety of the seafood we consume.
NOFF has launched a Consumer Information Campaign in metropolitan mainland Australia - starting with central Melbourne where drivers, commuters and shoppers are being greeted with our message at Flinders Street station and on major freeways into and out of the city.
Tasmanian-produced video fronts global campaign: the work of Tasmanian video producer, LOWCO, is featured prominently in a new global campaign to remove farmed Atlantic salmon and other carnivorous fish from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) definition of "sustainable" aquaculture.
Dark MOFO Winter Feast visitors are being asked a confronting question by a major art installation in Mawson Place, Hobart, featuring a large-scale image with religious overtones … and a clear message about the destructive impact of unsustainable salmon farming.
Tasmania's environment regulator has rejected a request that it notify the public in real time when salmon companies use antibiotic-coated feed at fish farms in the state's waterways. The Tasmanian Inquirer asked the Environmental Protection Authority to disclose details of antibiotic use at fish farms so recreational fishers and the public would...
A billboard calling on Federal Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, to act now to save a 60-million-year-old marine animal from extinction was installed in front of the Minister's Sydney electorate office this morning. Tasmanian community group, Neighbours of Fish farming (NOFF) has hired the billboard space to demand urgent action under Federal...
News that Tasmania's largest farmed salmon producer, Tassal, shot and killed 53 native birds trapped in substandard feedlot netting has outraged coastal communities in the state. Tassal, owned by Canada's Cooke Aquaculture, received permission from the state's environmental authority to shoot great cormorants after 641 found their way through the...
36 great cormorants died after becoming entangled in bird netting, and 53 were legally shot by Tassal staff, who had been granted permits by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment. The Tasmanian government approved the shooting after substandard netting allowed hundreds of the birds to enter fish cages at a salmon farm near Hobart.
