Media release – Tasmanian Alliance for Marine Protection, 8 March 2023
Islanders Meet Over Industrial Salmon Concerns
Bruny Island Public Meeting: Dennes Point Community Centre, Saturday, March 11 at 10.30am.
Increasing community outrage at the massive use of antibiotics in waters surrounding Bruny Island will be the focus of a public meeting at Dennes Point on Saturday morning.
Richard Flanagan and Essie Davis will speak at the meeting.
The meeting follows revelations that multinational salmon giant, Tassal, sought to hide its use of hundreds of kilos of antibiotics to treat diseased fish in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and Storm Bay. (https://tasmanianinquirer.
The public meeting will be hosted by the Killora Community Association and Friends of North Bruny at the Dennes Point Community Centre at 10.30am this Saturday, March 11, 2023.
The furtive use of antibiotics by both Tassal and Huon has highlighted the industry’s lack of transparency about its operations in the shallow public waterways around Bruny.
It has only added to residents’ objections to industry operations that have brought noise, light, pollution and loss of marine life to an island renowned globally for its tranquility and beauty.
“These are our waters – they’re public waters – and they don’t belong to multinational salmon companies to do whatever they want,” says Killora Community Association’s Gerard Castles.
“Bruny islanders have been fighting Big Salmon for more than 15 years and the industry has been getting away with outrageous behaviour enabled by the government and the regulators.
“We’re sick of them it’s time they got out of the Channel and the waters of Bruny Island.”
A land-based and waterborne protest on the D’Entrecasteaux Channel is planned for Saturday week, March 18, based at Coningham Beach and around the Simmonds lease just south.
Join In, Salmon Out protest: Coningham Beach and Simmons lease, D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Saturday, March 18, from 9.30am.
