Wednesday 30th May

On the news today…a great leap forward for the Tasmanian economy…

Salmon farmers today were given the go-ahead to create the largest fish farming area in the country.  The $88 million marine farm expansion in Macquarie Harbour will create 100 jobs and another 160 production and processing positions…

This is expansion from 564 hectares to 926 hectares.  A huge increase!!

I don’t generally like to be too oppositional, or too doom-and-gloom…but is this really a good thing for the waters of Macquarie Harbour??  Or for the poor caged fish, for that matter…much as I like eating them…and much as the population of Strahan, and in fact of the whole of Tasmania, will benefit.