Tasmania’s Salmon Farms—And All Fish Factory Farms—Must Go, Not Grow

Most people are familiar with the intensive factory farming of pigs, chickens, and other mammals exploited for food, but few realise that fish are also factory-farmed. In Australia, farming marine animals (called aquaculture) is the country’s fastest-growing primary industry, accounting for 34% of the total gross value of sea animals used for food.Forty different species are victims of aquaculture in Australia, with the most intensively farmed animals being tuna, prawns, crabs, barramundi,