STORM BAY & NUBEENA The Tasmanian Salmon Industry Plan released in May 2023 has indicated that most major expansions in the Salmon industry will be in Storm Bay and further offshore in Storm Bay!! - a rather vague statement.The 2022 SNAPSHOT: INDUSTRIAL FARMED SALMON IN STORM BAY & TASMAN PENINSULA map shows the location of leases and the number of pens predicted or in use in those leases.All Salmon leases off the Tasman Peninsula are owned and operated by Tassal. Land bases that service these leases are located off Badger Creek on the Roaring Beach Road and on the east side of Long Bay, Port Arthur.Off Nubeena are the Creeses Mistake, Badger Creek, Billy Blue and West of Wedge Island leases.Petuna is seeking to change the lease configuration of its Storm Bay lease formally approved in 2019. This lease lies approximately 6km south east of Betsy Island, and 3.3 km off the Tassal West of Wedge lease. The Tasmanian Salmon Industry Plan has assured us that Fish farms will be moving out of shallow bays and further offshore in Storm Bay. This new proposed lease is NOT offshore, it is in the channel leading into the fragile environments of Frederick Henry Bay and Norfolk Bay - home to critically endangered handfish, a shark sanctuary, and adjacent to nature reserves. It will affect recreational fishers, popular surfing sites and coastal residential areas with noise, light, visual, and nutrient pollution.
OCT 2023
No baffling effect of salmon pens? Blowing over 20 knots across the Creeses Mistake lease off Nubeena - look at the smooth water downwind of the pens and between the pens. Tons and tons and tons of plastic piping and netting above and below water 'baffling' the normal current and wind effect - in shallower bays this affects the dispersal of massive pollution (salmon poo) from the salmon swimming in endless circles in the pens.
August 2021
White Beach residents were dismayed to find algae covering the little beach near the jetty. One resident says he couldn’t walk on the sand when he went there. These blooms are washing up with greater frequency than ever before and indicates high nutrients loads in the bay. Independent scientists have informed the public that the greatest local contributor to nutrients in the bay is the local salmon farm.