Labor and the Liberals Sing the Same Tune on Fish Farm Expansion
The Greens support community calls for fish farming to be truly sustainable, and genuinely 'world's best practice'.
The Greens support community calls for fish farming to be truly sustainable, and genuinely 'world's best practice'.
East Coast residents will now have the time to provide detailed comments on a controversial jetty proposal in Triabunna.
The Minister is on the record as saying your sustainable growth plan for the salmon farming industry will be oceanic, not estuarine.
The Premier downgraded his assessment of the salmon industry’s practices as being “very good” in Parliament today.
At Triabunna Community Hall, on Sunday, around 250 quietly furious Tasmanians gathered to express their strong objection to fish farming in Okehampton Bay.
I rise to draw the attention of the House to the very large public meeting held in Triabunna last Sunday that I attended.
More than 200 people packed the Triabunna Community Hall today to express their anger at the decision to approve a Tassal fish farm in pristine Okehampton Bay.
Tassal joining Huon Aquaculture in court around the government's industry regulator raises even more issues about regulation of the salmon industry.
Labor have finally made it clear they will join the Liberals in backing industry's short-term gains over the marine environment and long-term jobs.
Minister Rockliff has announced he plans to regulate where salmon farm expansions can occur in the future, and it will "most likely be in oceanic waters".