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Salmon farm in Macquarie Harbour. (Photo Credit: M. Murphy)
Three Tasmanian firms to jointly submit Senate’s salmon industry inquiry
(AUSTRALIA, 4/29/2015)
Tasmania's three fish farming companies will be making one combined submission to an inquiry on the salmon industry initiated by the Australian Greens in response to concerns around the health of Macquarie Harbour.
The three salmon companies, Tassal, Petuna Seafood, Huon Aquaculture, will stress the transparency of their information on the marine waterway health.
The firms have taken this decision after a Senate committee is calling for public submissions to the inquiry into the fish farm industry, amid widespread criticism from environmental groups, southern mussel farmers and abalone businesses, claiming salmon farms are creating too much waste and are killing natural waterways, ABC informed.
It is calculated that the value of the Tasmania's salmon industry reaches about the AUD 500 million (USD 391 million).
Petuna CEO Mark Porter welcomed the Senate inquiry and pointed out: "In terms of any impacts on waterways and environmental health there's probably nobody more concerned about that than the industry itself."
The CEO also explained that there is a global salmon initiative that they all adhere to, all salmon farmers are measured by and out of all the salmon farms in the world the Tasmanian companies come within the top 12.
A report tabled in Federal Parliament in March by a working group including representatives of the salmon industry, Tasmanian Government, Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), revealed that dissolved oxygen levels in Macquarie Harbour had plunged since 2009.
But Porter insisted they are trying to be as open with the public and open with the NGO's and environmental groups as possible.
Meanwhile, Tasmanian Labour Senator Lisa Singh, a member of the Senate committee which expects to begin considering submissions in June, said she saw the inquiry as an opportunity for the salmon industry to highlight its environmental credentials.
“Supporting the salmon industry and the environment in Tasmania are not mutually exclusive,’’ Senator Singh said.
The window for making submissions to the inquiry into the Tasmanian salmon industry closes on 1 June 2015.
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