Marine Environment
It has been very disappointing to hear the government's response on this and to hear their dismissive arguments towards us.
It has been very disappointing to hear the government's response on this and to hear their dismissive arguments towards us.
Tasmania’s unique marine ecosystem is in the midst of collapse but the Environment Minister is wilfully blind to the problem, denying the reality playing out in our waterways.
That is fundamentally dismissing your job. How can you be taking this seriously? You are not, at all, and you have completely just demonstrated that.
It is with deep concern that we are watching what appears to be a tipping to collapse in the marine environment..
Right now, a toxic algal bloom is poisoning shellfish from at least Maria Island to the west of Bruny Island.
Horrific figures released by the EPA has confirmed what we all feared – in just two months, ten million kilograms of industrial farmed salmon have died from an insidious disease.
Can I implore you as Parks minister to take this up with Parks? You know as well as I do that the EPA will not have the resources or time to investigate the impact
Have you received any information at all from national parks or from your Parks advisers about this event?
To hear you shrug your shoulders and say this is a matter for the EPA, when we have information that an area for which you have ministerial responsibility...
Thank you to the minister for that answer. I would also like to note the impact on a very sensitive marine ecology of this mass mortality event.