Mass farmed salmon deaths are continuing in southeast Tasmania, with rotting corpses washing up along the state's beaches.
Tasmania's Environment Protection Authority appears to know very little about what is going on.
A similar event occurred in Macquarie Harbour last year, with 10 per cent of farmed fish dying.
Concern among Federal Parliamentarians is increasing with Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie and Independent MP Andrew Wilkie calling out the unsustainable practices of the salmon industry in recent days.
Meanwhile, the science remains clear that salmon farms are the number one threat to the endangered Maugean skate, recognised for its world heritage value.
Now, the salmon industry has admitted the real number of local people whose jobs would be affected if the industry moved out of Macquarie Harbour.
"The Australia Institute has shown the real number of jobs for west coast locals in Macquarie Harbour is fewer than 76 since 2023," said Eloise Carr, Director of The Australia Institute Tasmania.
"Now the salmon industry has finally owned up and admitted it's 60, not the 400 so often claimed.
"Jobs like those in processing and administration, already based elsewhere, do not have to rely on industrial fish feedlots that destroy world heritage.
"This misleading behaviour may have caused the government to invest in oxygenation trials when in fact it would be more economically prudent to destock and provide direct support to affected workers."
