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While many grandiose aquaculture projects have failed to live up to their promise in the Middle East, Fish Farms LLC – which includes a hatchery, cage farms and RAS facilities in Dubai – offers an example of what can be achieved under testing conditions.
Salmon deaths on fish farms in Scotland nearly doubled last year, official figures show, owing to growing levels of disease, parasites and jellyfish blooms. Campaigners have blamed overcrowding and called for a boycott.
The Hobart Mercury's Big Issues survey (3 January 2023) shows that the vast majority of respondents, 78.5 per cent, do not believe monitoring of the salmon industry is adequate. 50.47 per cent of respondents supported salmon farming, while 40.53 did not. Nearly 55 per cent do not buy or consume Tasmanian-grown salmon.
Environment and community groups representing thousands of Tasmanians are accusing the state government of deception and dishonesty as it enables the Atlantic salmon industry to expand in public waterways.
Your government's defence of the consultation process surrounding plans to expand the Atlantic salmon industry in Tasmania is disingenuous and misleading.
The Tasmanian Government has released the draft Ten Year Salmon Plan, without completing all their promised community consultation. NOFF's President, Peter George, said:
The recent report from the Tasmanian Legislative Council Finfish Enquiry is a devastating analysis of pretty well every aspect of industrial salmon farming in Tasmania. It calls for the removal of pens from the shallow waters of our coasts and rivers, and a halt to expansion without genuine research. (News update – the Government's response is...
