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Footage captured at Huon Aquaculture factory farms in Southern Tasmania has shown live fish pumped into a bin amongst piles of dead salmon and then sealed and left to suffocate. Footage has also captured more rotting chunks of salmon spilling out of the factory farm pens and into Tasmania's waterways.
There has been considerable public and media interest in recent correspondence between NOFF and the Tasmanian EPA. Some of the debate has lacked detail, and caused confusion. To ensure fairness and accuracy, for us and the EPA, here is the text of the most recent email from the EPA, and the text of our communications to them.
"We write to express our deep concern about your recent intervention to bypass Australia's environmental laws and introduce special legislation exempting the salmon farming industry in Tasmania's West Coast region."
In the first substantial email correspondence from the EPA to NOFF in just over two weeks since the biological pollution started washing up on beaches in Tasmania's South East, the Environmental Protection Authority has issued a new warning, advised by the Department of Health.
The Independent Federal Member for Clark, Andrew Wilkie, will discuss the revelation today that the Tasmanian Government knows bugger all about the ongoing mass salmon die-off and seems to care even less.
At Verona Sands, NOFF campaigner Jess Coughlan saw for herself the innumerable balls of smelly greasy material "scattered all along the tideline, running the entire length of the beach". She broke some of the larger pieces open. They were pink inside and contained scales. The balls were not fish food, they were the putrid remains of fish. An...
As the EPA continues its investigation into which company is responsible for the pollution bringing a tide of decaying salmon fat onto Tasmania's much loved beaches in the South East, Tassal and Huon Aquaculture and their foreign owners are hiding behind PR front Salmon Tasmania.
Neighbours of fish farming is calling out apparent EPA complicity in the coverup of a horrific incident in the Huon and Channel area salmon farms, where putrid greasy material has washed up on beaches and a marine protected area.
