Public Meeting – Hobart Town Hall – Wednesday, April 28 – 12.30pm

Speakers include: Louise Cherrie, Richard Flanagan, Justin Kurzel

“Unlike any other food industry, consumers don’t see how Tasmanian salmon is made. The community couldn’t handle seeing that vision.” Louise Cherrie

“It’s not clean, it’s not green and it’s not even healthy.” Richard Flanagan

The environmental expert who blew the whistle on the government’s salmon expansion advisory panel, Louise Cherrie, will make her first public appearance tomorrow at the Hobart Town Hall.

She’ll be one of a panel of speakers at a meeting called to demand government plans for a massive expansion of the industry be divulged to Tasmanian voters before they vote.

Ms Cherrie and Professor Barbara Nowak resigned from the Marine Farming Planning Review Panel when it approved salmon industry expansion into Storm Bay despite concerns over lack of proper procedure and science. Professor Nowak is an acknowledged expert in aquaculture while Ms Cherrie specialises in environmental issues involving heavy polluting industry.

“It’s a dereliction of democratic duty that the two major parties have refused to discuss what amounts to a massive secret sea grab by Big Salmon during the election campaign,” says Peter George, co-Chair of the Tasmanian Alliance for Marine Protection (TAMP).

“TAMP calls on Premier Gutwein to tell Tasmanians which parts of the northern coastline are to be sold off cheap to the industry – and where it will expand on the east and south east coasts.”

The government promised public consultations before the end of March this year about reducing the so-called salmon No Grow Zones but that promise has now been broken.

Environment Tasmania will announce a significant escalation of our consumer campaign targeting salmon buyers.

In addition to Louise Cherrie, speakers at the meeting include:
Richard Flanagan, author, Toxic: The Rotting Underbelly of the Tasmanian Salmon Industry
Justin Kurzel, Film maker, Paradise Lost, companion documentary about the salmon industry
Laura Kelly, Director, Environment Tasmania, who will speak of an expanded mainland campaign.
Essie Davis, Actor & Bruny Island resident