We now know salmon are dying from Piscirickettsia salmonis bacteria, the same illness that wiped out 90 per cent of the Chilean industry. This is a biosecurity emergency.
Honourable Speaker, I rise tonight to reflect on the stinky salmon summer this island has endured and there is no sign it is over.
Diseased fish have been dying in the hundreds of thousands. The putrid results are still washing up on some of southern Tasmania's most beautiful beaches
The EPA has confirmed what the public suspected – the fatty chunks washing ashore on Tasmanian beaches are a result of mass farmed salmon deaths.
The Liberals’ guidelines for a new sardine and other small fish fishery are just more greenwashing from a government hell-bent on plundering Tasmanian waters for salmon feed.
Several hundred Tasmanians have rallied in Cremorne Beach, calling on the Liberal Government to stop the expansion of polluting fish farms.
Reports the Prime Minister is considering exempting fish farms in Macquarie Harbour from environmental laws is a brute display of corporate power getting outcomes from politicians.
This week the House of Assembly passed the Greens’ donation reform legislation, it's time the Liberal government to come clean on which vested interests are lining their coffers.
The proposition of a sardine fishery in Bass Strait has the Greens highly concerned the supertrawler fight of a decade ago will reignite all for the sake of industrial salmon food.
The impact on wild fish populations is significantly higher than has previously been reported.