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Salmon Tasmania said (Friday 29 September 2023) it had teamed with Australian Government's Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (FRDC) and the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) to place a barge on the harbour to manufacture an increased level of oxygen to help save the endangered Maugean skate.
This campaign calls for fast, muscular intervention from the Federal Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek to protect Tasmania's marine and bird life from salmon industry operations in the state's coastal waters.
Desperate to expand beyond Macquarie Harbour where it has been a major contributor to the pollution that is driving Maugean skate to extinction, Petuna today played host to the Tasmanian Premier and ministers in a bid to expand into Storm Bay.
The state's peak marine protection body, TAMP, calls for environmental licences permitting salmon industry operations in Macquarie Harbour to be revoked.
Today, environmental NGOs (non-government organisations) around Tasmania are calling for action to protect the endangered Maugean skate and representation on the newly formed Maugean Skate Recovery Team. Despite there being a range of Tasmanian-based NGOs that focus on Tasmanian marine conservation, threatened species and the impacts of salmon...
Claims of 'green' and 'sustainable' by the Atlantic salmon industry should be investigated according to a Tasmanian-wide coalition's submission to the Federal Senate inquiry into Greenwashing.
"There must have been a salmon escape … you'll catch those things all day long" -Fishing guru Nick Crawford 18 August 2023 on ABC Radio Hobart with Leon Compton.
