Notice of Australia Institute address on Salmon Farming:
Leanne Minshull, Director of Australia Institute Tasmania.

Christian Life Centre, 8 Mary Street, Cygnet
10.30am
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Neighbours of Fish Farming (NOFF) is urging all Australian restaurants
and chefs to join the Sustainable Salmon Chefs’ Charter and welcomes
the prominence the movement is gaining as evidenced by Fairfax Media
today.

See: Fishing for Change: Are We Eating Too Much Salmon?:
http://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/news/are-we-eating-too-much-salmon-20170921-gylrqu

NOFF spokesperson, Dr Christine Materia, says the Chef’s Charter
mirrors the organisation’s aims of encouraging fish farming to develop in
Tasmania in a sustainable way.

“We try to engage with salmon producers to adopt more sensitive
environmental and community standards,” Dr Materia said.

“Far from opposing fish farming, we would like to see it grow but in a
way that protects Tasmania’s reputation as a State that values its wildlife
and natural environment.”

Dr Materia said NOFF supports the aims of the Sustainable Salmon
Chefs’ Charter to develop farming practices further offshore and
eventually, to move the farms ashore where environmental issues can
more easily be addressed.

Responding to Tasmania’s Deputy Premier, Jeremy Rockliff’s, claim the
charter is a “boycott” of the industry, Dr Materia said the charter
signatories and NOFF were actually doing their best to protect an
industry in danger of destroying its good name through unsustainable
practices.

Some of Australia’s most prominent chefs have signed the charter
including In Tasmania, Matthew Evans, Luke Burgess and Philippe
Leban, Christian Ryan and Masaaki Koyama are signatories.

NOFF is conducting a public meeting in Cygnet on Saturday at 10.30am
at the Christian Life Centre, Mary Street, which will be addressed by the
Director of the Australia Institute Tasmania, Leanne Minshull.

Ms Minshull will report on the Institute’s recent investigation into the
community response to the expansion of fish farming in the state and
research into the cost of moving the industry further offshore or on to
land.
The Institute has recently modelled the consequences of a downturn in
the industry if fish farming lost government support or failed to gain
community acceptability in the state as a consequence of environmental
and social impacts.

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Dr Christine Materia, Spokesperson, Neighbours of Fish Farming