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Salmon pens in a bay on a gloomy day.

Protestors rallied on a green lawn with signs

  • 4th largest in the world
  • 90,000 tonnes per year (2023)

An aerial image shows collapsed salmon pens near an island.

An old man flanked either side by two younger men.

  • Largest in the world
  • 1.2 million tonnes per year (2023)

different kinds of cured slabs of salmon line a glass cabinet

"The main reasons for the salmon disappearing, is the lice from salmon operations and the escapees and diseases coming from salmon production,"
he said.
packets of plastic wrapped salmon fillets

"This is a problem for the industry."

  • 2nd largest in the world
  • 727,000 tonnes per year, estimated (2024)

A federal MP named Julie Collins wearing a black and white top and clutching a binder in parliament.

"Things have changed, technologies have improved and we need to make sure the science is right,"
he said.

  • 3rd largest in the world
  • 185,000 tonnes per year (2024)

Salmon pens in the Sound of Mull at sunset.

Salmon pens in a Scottish waterway surrounded by hills

"The Tasmanian salmon industry believes a balance of growing our salmon on land and at sea will allow us to continue to farm sustainably and employ more local people."
Dead pink fish and pink chunks floating in an open ocean fish pen.

"We have yet to find any containment system around the world that has been able to effectively work at scale."
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