Aqua Spa – Salmon Protest
I thank the Bob Brown Foundation and the community around Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula for their peaceful protest this morning.
I thank the Bob Brown Foundation and the community around Port Arthur on the Tasman Peninsula for their peaceful protest this morning.
The Greens stand with the residents of the Tasman Peninsula defending their waterways.
After years of unchecked expansion and worsening environmental and social impacts, Tasmania's fish farming industry is about to enter its darkest phase.
No Tasmanian would be comforted by the Environment Minister’s attempted assurances in Parliament today.
Ms Palmer is the latest in a line of Labor and Liberal salmon industry supplicants.
Can you please provide an explanation for why there has been an increase of pens in Nubeena on the Tasman Peninsula?
Minister, are you concerned at the gross use of underwater explosives, more than 8000 underwater explosives that are used for the purpose of scaring seals?
What we have here is a massive document, the Legislative Council's sub-committee report on fin fish farming in Tasmania.
I draw your attention to the purchase of Huon Aquaculture last November by JBS, a Brazilian meat company, the largest protein producer on the planet.
Esteemed water quality scientist Christine Coughanowr has identified systemic problems with flow-through salmon hatcheries in the Derwent.