Salmon are dying in the pens of commercial farms and their rotting remains have been washing up along Tasmania's beaches for the past week.
The foreign-owned salmon industry must come clean about the scale of this disaster and ensure Australians that not a single diseased fish is processed for sale.
The industry must ensure diseased fish do not end up on Australian supermarket shelves or dinner plates.
"Hundreds of thousands of salmon are continuing to die," said Eloise Carr, Director of The Australia Institute Tasmania.
"The regulation of this industry is completely inadequate, so we don't know much. But it looks like the dead fish are being extracted too slowly from pens that are still full of other fish. You can see the carcasses rotting and falling apart.
"Tasmanians are rightfully starting to ask what is being done to protect the health of consumers in all this?
"The salmon industry claims it gets more scrutiny than on-land agriculture. When there is a breakout of avian flu on land, the entire chicken flock is euthanised. In salmon pens, it appears the dead and live salmon are in the same pen. The dead ones are taken to the tip. What happens to the live ones?
"The Environment Protection Authority has not provided an update about this disease for a week now. Australians deserve better. Is this bacteria transferable or harmful to humans?"
