'Tassal’s pulp mill moment': the battle over Tasmania's $30m salmon farm
by Calla Wahlquist from Environment | The Guardian on (#2TGF9)
More than 1,000 people, spread across 300 boats, protested against the shallow-water fish farm at Okehampton Bay
A proposed $30m salmon farm development on Tasmania's pristine east coast and legal challenges against Tassal's other operations are creating a storm of opposition that has been compared to campaigns against the infamous Gunns pulp mill.
More than 1,000 people, spread across 300 boats and Hobart's Constitution Dock, staged a protest on Sunday opposing Tassal's development of a new shallow-water fish farm at Okehampton Bay near Triabunna, about 90km from Hobart.
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