Tasmania’s Critical Salmon Industry Held Hostage Due To Activists’ Legal Free Kick

How activists weaponised flawed science in attempt to crush Tasmania’s salmon industry

Report questions evidence behind salmon farming restrictions in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour. A new report has cast doubt on the scientific basis used to justify restrictions on salmon farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, raising concerns about the politicisation of endangered species protections and the broader economic impact on the region’s aquaculture industry. The paper, authored by [...]

The Ecoceanos Center valued as a strong sign on the international market the position of the Australian opposition to prevent the entry of industrial salmon from Chile, as it constitutes a threat to the marine environment and local industry. It shares this position, due to the harmful environmental, health and social impacts of the governmental-entrepreneurial plan that seeks to double the production of salmon destined for export, sacrificing th…

Tasmania’s Critical Salmon Industry Held Hostage Due To Activists’ Legal Free Kick

“This election, Australia’s political leaders cannot avoid the prevailing situation in Tasmania where activists are holding the state’s most important industry, and the livelihoods of thousands of salmon workers, to ransom due to failed laws designed to propagate lawfare,” said Morgan Begg, Director of Research Institute of Public Affairs. Today, the Institute of Public Affairs released Skating over thin evidence: The weaponisation of endangered…