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Salmon Farming

JoinINSalmonOUT Protest Details

MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD … LOUD AND CLEAR

Joininsalmonout Protest this Saturday 9.30am Conningham beach – on beach and water. Here are all the details:

We are reclaiming the D’Entrecasteaux Channel from industrial salmon feedlots …

Come to the Join In … Salmon Out protest

When: 9.30am – This coming Saturday, March 18

Where: Starting at Coningham Beach

Without boats:

 Join us on the beach from 9.30am (see directions below)

Small craft (kayak, inflatable etc): 

 From 8.30am on Coningham Beach.

Bigger boats (outboards etc) 

 Easy launching at Margate slipway.

 Rendezvous off Coningham Beach 09.30 (1nm east of Snug  Bay) 

Large boats (sailing etc)

 Rendezvous off Coningham Beach 09.30 (1nm east of Snug  Bay) 

THE PLAN:

Join In Salmon Out is a peaceful, legal protest to reclaim the D’Entrecasteaux Channel from the multinational industrial salmon companies for all the people of Tasmania.

LARGER CRAFT: Those craft able to travel some distance will sail/motor/paddle around the Tassal Sheppards lease. (approx 3nm)

SMALLER CRAFT: Small floating craft like paddle boards etc will protest just off the beach.

FOOT TRAFFIC: Meet on the beach to help make all our voices heard … and bring a banner!

HOW TO GET THERE:

 From Hobart direction: head south on Channel Highway to Snug. 900 metres after Snug, turn left on to Old Station Road.

 From the south: head north on Channel Highway, turn right on to Old Station Road before ascending the hill to Snug.

 Follow Old Station Road until it turns sharp right and take the next left on to Coningham Road. Follow until the end of the sealed road – marked with sign to beach to the left.

 UNLOADING SMALL CRAFT/TRAILERS: THERE IS LIMITED TURNAROUND ROOM AT THE SMALL BEACH CARPARK. PLEASE FOLLOW DIRECTIONS TO UNLOAD SMALL BOATS AND THEN REMOVE CAR (AND TRAILER). See below.

 PARKING:  There is limited parking beside the beach. Park above the beach at convenient legal spot. Please ensure no driveways are blocked. 

Email  gerard@gerardcastles.com
Mobile 0419381339

FONB

Tassal’s Media Release re Retirement of Tinderbox Lease, 17 Nov 2017

Below is an important media release from Tassal. It provides formal confirmation by their accreditation body, SCS Global Services, that MF90 (the Tinderbox Lease) will soon be retired. FONB cautiously welcomes this development. We have sought advice from Tassal about the remediation protocols that might be in place for this process. We have also asked DPIWE’s Director of Marine Resources for advice on what reduction in nitrogen load might be expected with this and other retirements in the Channel. We remain deeply concerned about the impacts of proposed expansions of fish farming in Storm Bay. FONB would welcome comment.

FONB

Friends of North Bruny and Storm Bay Aquaculture

For the past 12 months and more, the issue of fish farm expansion in Storm Bay has come to dominate discussion within FONB.  A well attended General Meeting on February 11, and an AGM last month that attracted an even larger turnout, demonstrated the degree of community concern that exists over this issue.  FONB will continue to serve as a fulcrum for analysis and action over fish farm expansion on the northeast coast of Bruny Island.  Our position is well summarised in the following motion, unanimously passed at the 11 February meeting:

‘That the Executive Committee act on behalf of Friends of North Bruny to work with other community groups around Storm Bay to bring to the attention of the Premier, Fisheries Minister and the Marine Farming Planning Review Panel the need for an agreed plan for sustainable fish farming in Storm Bay and the D’Entrecasteaux; and, asks that this be resolved before there are any expansion to the leases in Storm Bay.’