The Extinction Diet: Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon versus the Maureen Skate ...
If the price of Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon is extinction for the Maugean Skate, is the price too high? Fish farming of Atlantic Salmon in Macquarie Harbour expanded rapidly in 2016'. This coincided with the rapid decline in the the Maugean Skate population, from c.3,200 individuals in 2016 to a...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.8373568 2023-11-05T03:40:28+01:00 The Extinction Diet: Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon versus the Maureen Skate ... Paull, John 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8373568 https://zenodo.org/record/8373568 unknown Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8373569 Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Extinction, Tasmania, environmental management. Article ConferencePaper 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.837356810.5281/zenodo.8373569 2023-10-09T11:03:47Z If the price of Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon is extinction for the Maugean Skate, is the price too high? Fish farming of Atlantic Salmon in Macquarie Harbour expanded rapidly in 2016'. This coincided with the rapid decline in the the Maugean Skate population, from c.3,200 individuals in 2016 to a 47% decline by 2021. The present population may be down to 1,000 individuals. For the Tasmanian ecosystem, Atlantic salmon is an alien invasive species. The fact of this invasive species being crammed into sea-cages for fast fattening makes them no less invasive. Tonnes of fish-feed pellets are tossed into Macquarie Harbour on a daily basis (>10,000 tonnes pa). Blanketing the harbour floor under the cages is fish-food waste (pellets not consumed as they sink), along with tonnes of fish faeces. This putrid blanket of muck sucks oxygen from the water and creates dead zones. The Australian Government has identified: “The primary threat to the Maugean skate is habitat degradation resulting from sustained reduction of ... : Invasive and non-native species are known to cause economic loss, ecosystem degradation, and drive extinctions. The time has come to shut down the industrial fish farms of Macquarie Harbour, for the survival of the Maugean Skate and for the health of the ecosystem of the Harbour. ... Conference Object Atlantic salmon DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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If the price of Tasmanian Atlantic Salmon is extinction for the Maugean Skate, is the price too high? Fish farming of Atlantic Salmon in Macquarie Harbour expanded rapidly in 2016'. This coincided with the rapid decline in the the Maugean Skate population, from c.3,200 individuals in 2016 to a 47% decline by 2021. The present population may be down to 1,000 individuals. For the Tasmanian ecosystem, Atlantic salmon is an alien invasive species. The fact of this invasive species being crammed into sea-cages for fast fattening makes them no less invasive. Tonnes of fish-feed pellets are tossed into Macquarie Harbour on a daily basis (>10,000 tonnes pa). Blanketing the harbour floor under the cages is fish-food waste (pellets not consumed as they sink), along with tonnes of fish faeces. This putrid blanket of muck sucks oxygen from the water and creates dead zones. The Australian Government has identified: “The primary threat to the Maugean skate is habitat degradation resulting from sustained reduction of ... : Invasive and non-native species are known to cause economic loss, ecosystem degradation, and drive extinctions. The time has come to shut down the industrial fish farms of Macquarie Harbour, for the survival of the Maugean Skate and for the health of the ecosystem of the Harbour. ... |
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