Hundreds at snap rally protest renewal of polluting factory fish farm licences in Tasmania’s Long Bay.
Today, hundreds gathered on Parliament lawns in Hobart to express their anger and frustration that the Rockliff government is allowing toxic fish farms to keep destroying Tasmania’s waterways. After months of delay, the Tasmanian environmental protection agency has renewed the environmental license of 16 factory fish farms in Long Bay, ignoring community concerns. Bob Brown […]
Long Bay toxic salmon lease must be cancelled
The Rockliff government has renewed licenses for controversial factory fish farms in Long Bay despite community, environmental and scientific concerns. After almost 9 months of delay, the Rockliff government and the Tasmanian Environmental Protection Agency, has renewed the environmental license for 16 controversial fish farms in Long Bay, near the Tasman National park and Port […]
Industrial salmon farming’s global environmental disaster – ABC story expose
Tonight’s ABC’s Foreign Correspondent episode on factory farmed salmon in Norway, demonstrates that wherever salmon factory farms are around the world, they are environmental nightmares. Salmon farming is now factory farming on the water and its impacts are severe. Anthony Albanese and Premier Rockliff should take warning from what environmental damages and animal welfare problems […]
Salmon ads remain deceptive, despite successful appeal
Industry lobby group, Salmon Tasmania, have won an appeal that overturns a recent decision that one of their videos in their recent ad campaign was deceptive. Bob Brown Foundation believes that the original ruling holds true and is investigating what other avenues can be taken to remove the deceptive ad. “The salmon ad in question, […]
Protests continue at Hill Street Grocer over their sale of environmentally damaging farmed salmon
Today in Latrobe, Bob Brown Foundation and community members have protested in front of Hill Street Grocer over their continued sale of factory-farmed salmon. Hill Street Grocer has been the subject of an ongoing campaign, urging the Tasmanian retailer to stop selling factory-farmed salmon, which is so damaging to the Tasmanian marine environment. Bob Brown […]
Revealed: Disease-ridden factory fish farms used over five tonnes of controversial antibiotics in just months
The admission today from the toxic salmon industry that they used over fiver tonnes of a controversial antibiotic in Tasmania’s waterways amounts to an environmental crime. This use of the antibiotic is shocking when compared to fish farm operations globally. While Tasmanian factory fish farms used over five tonnes in just a few short months, […]
Activists board factory fish farms in Long Bay demanding that Rockliff and the EPA not renew environmental licenses
Today, activists from Bob Brown Foundation, alongside concerned community members, have boarded fish farms in Long Bay near Port Arthur. The protest demands that Jeremy Rockliff and the Tasmanian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) not renew the environmental licenses for the polluting fish farms in Long Bay. The decision on whether or not to renew the […]
Toxic salmon industry is wasting everyone’s time appealing ban on their deceptive ads
The peak body for the factory-farmed salmon industry, Salmon Tasmania, has announced it will appeal the regulator’s decision to remove one of its latest TV ads for being misleading. The ad featured misleading images purporting to show footage of a clean seafloor beneath factory fish farms, in an attempt to convince viewers that this is […]
Protest demands Hill Street Grocer stop selling extinction
Today in Devonport, concerned community members have protested out the front of Hill Street Grocer over their continued sale of factory-farmed salmon. Hill Street Grocer has been the subject of an ongoing campaign since 2024, urging the Tasmanian retailer to stop selling factory-farmed salmon, which is so damaging to the Tasmanian marine environment. Bob Brown […]
New report shows Maugean Skate still declining in Macquarie Harbour
Today’s report from IMAS shows that the Maugean Skate remains at risk of extinction. Despite federal conservation advice finding that the factory fish farms in Macquarie Harbour posed a catastrophic risk to the Maugean Skates’ survival, none have been removed. Bob Brown Foundation is calling for the immediate removal of fish farms from Macquarie Harbour. […]
