Bob Brown Foundation is calling for Salmon Tasmania to publicly disclose how many salmon are dying in its factory farms. They say reports of mass mortalities of industrial farmed salmon around Tasmania show, once again, how destructive and cruel Tasmanian farmed salmon is to both wildlife and the salmon.

The precariously low numbers of Maugean skates have reportedly stabilised, but the skate is still on the brink of extinction in its only home, Macquarie Harbour, the Australian Marine Conservation Society said after the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies released its second interim report on the Macquarie Harbour Maugean skate population.

If you, like me, eat salmon, perhaps it’s time for us to finally face facts. In the words of celebrated Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan, we’re eating horror, and we’re dining on destruction.