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<div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="584gv-0-0"><span class="veryhardreadability"><span data-offset-key="584gv-0-0">We the petitioners call on the Government and the respective Ministers to respect the wishes of the local community and not bring diseased fish and fish farming pens in to Norfolk Bay</span></span><span data-offset-key="584gv-1-0">. </span><span class="veryhardreadability"><span data-offset-key="584gv-2-0">We ask that you uphold the precautionary principle and not bring diseased creatures in to fish breeding habitat and one of the few homes of the red handfish</span></span><span data-offset-key="584gv-3-0">. </span><span class="veryhardreadability"><span data-offset-key="584gv-4-0">Norfolk Bay is a significant natural fish and shark hatchery and contains extensive sea grasses which are vulnerable to industrial fish farming</span></span><span data-offset-key="584gv-5-0">.</span></div>
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<div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="7asrc-0-0"><span class="veryhardreadability"><span data-offset-key="7asrc-0-0">We further ask that you request the Federal Minister for the Environment to intervene under the EPBC Act with specific reference to red handfish as a threatened species</span></span><span data-offset-key="7asrc-1-0">.</span></div>
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Jack Mann commented 2018-09-06 13:05:27 +1000 · Flag
The Huon River and Dover is a Enviromental catastrophy. Somebody please help us down here. The Tourism motto for Tasmania should be: Pollution in Tassy is Fine, when its Below the Waterline.
If the residents down here pumped raw sewage into the waterway they would be jailed. Yet Huon Aquaculture and Tassal are both pumping millions of tonnes into the pristine waters every year. They have the green light to double their production.
Laura Kelly published this page 2018-08-31 17:48:15 +1000
Viola Hemm commented 2017-09-30 10:36:39 +1000 · Flag
To put fish farms into these pristine waters is insane. What drives a human being to allow this to happen?
Leigh Johnson commented 2017-09-22 14:10:17 +1000 · Flag
Sooner or later the offshore accounts into which these corrupt politicians receive their multimillion dollar bribes will be revealed. There’s no other reason they’d destroy the environment for future generations like this.
Harry E;lliffe commented 2016-09-23 16:21:05 +1000 · Flag
Be on your guard to preserve the pristene environment

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