Reminder to Have Your Say on New Aquaculture Standards

Media release – Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania, 16 June 2022

Reminder to have your say on new aquaculture standards

Tasmanians are being reminded to have their say on the development of three new mandatory standards to support sustainable aquaculture industries in Tasmania.

The standards will enhance salmon farming biosecurity, improve environmental regulation, and ensure statewide consistency of marine farming management controls across all aquaculture sectors. They will offer certainty and transparency to farmers, regulators, and the community alike.

Consultation opened in April and was originally planned to close in May but was extended by four weeks to allow more time for interested stakeholders to submit feedback.

The proposed new standards aim to provide a contemporary, best practice framework that ensures consistency and streamlining of regulation across all sectors, while also building on existing voluntary measures undertaken by the industry.

Once finalised, ongoing compliance with the standards will be monitored by NRE Tas and the independent Environment Protection Authority (EPA).

For a copy of the proposed salmon biosecurity standards, proposed marine farming management controls, marine finfish environmental standard position paper, supporting documents, information on how to provide comment on the three areas of consultation, and for details on how the feedback will be used, please visit: www.nre.tas.gov.au/aquaculturestandards.

Public consultation on the standards closes at 11.59pm AEST on 20 June 2022.