Media Release, Bob Brown Foundation, 16 November 2025
Eaglehawk Neck town hall packed to the rafters – meeting calls for industrial salmon farms to be removed from Long Bay
A town hall meeting in Eaglehawk Neck on the Tasman Peninsula has unequivocally called for the industrial fish farms in Long Bay to be removed forever from the water.
The meeting was standing room only with the Eaglehawk Neck community hall completely full.
Speakers included Louise Cherrie, former member of the Marine Review Board, John Stanfield who runs the popular recreational fishers Facebook page and deputy chair of the TARFish board, Tasmanian independent science council expert Christine Coughanowr as well as residents.
“All around Tasmania, residents are constantly dealing with the impacts of industrial fish farms in our waters, and they have had enough. People want fish farms out now,”
said Alistair Allan, Antarctic and Marine Campaigner at Bob Brown Foundation.
“With community outrage growing over the invasion and pollution from factory fish farms, the approval of a new antibiotic that will be dumped in public waterways has only added fuel to the fire.
“Premier Rockliff must stop listening to his corporate overlords in the industrial salmon industry and instead start listening to the people he is meant to represent, the Tasmanian public,” said Allan.
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