“Environment Tasmania welcomes the encouraging news and remarkable achievement that IMAS scientists have successfully hatched baby Maugean skates from an egg laid in captivity. However, we stress that the captive breeding program cannot work in isolation. The fact remains that these captive skates will need a healthy Macquarie Harbour to return to. Once again, we implore the Federal Environment Minister to follow the conservation advice that calls for the removal of salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour to safeguard the Maugean skate from extinction.”
James Watts, Save the Skate Campaigner