Tasmanian Fish Farm Expansion Poses Environmental Risk
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Australian Broadcasting] By Emily Bryan- March 4, 2015
Concerns about the deteriorating water quality at Macquarie Harbour on Tasmania's west coast have been raised in state and federal parliament.
Last night the Tasmanian Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson tabled a confidential draft report from a body that includes the salmon industry, Tasmanian Government, CSIRO and the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS).
Senator Whish-Wilson told Parliament the report, from August last year, highlighted plunging levels of dissolved oxygen in the deep waters of Macquarie Harbour since ...
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