Tasmanian salmon should be off the menu for now, says conservation group
(WorldNews Environment)

It´s one of Australia´s - and the world´s - favourite fish but Tasmanian Atlantic salmon should be off the menu for now, according to the Australian Marine Conservation Society, publishers of Australia´s independent sustainable seafood guide. On Wednesday, the AMCS downgraded the farmed fish´s rating from an amber `Think Twice` to a red `Say No` due to ongoing environmental concerns. The previous review was in 2015. Adrian Meder, the sustainable seafood program manager at AMCS, said the salmon farming industry had been enabled to expand `too far and too fast` in Macquarie Harbour, on the state´s west coast, where key players Huon Aquaculture, Tassal and Petuna lease several industrial fish...