Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Wong has answered some of my second question. At Senate estimates, the Threatened Species Commissioner, Dr Fiona Fraser, also explained there are numerous pressures impacting and risking the skate, including industrial salmon farming. She said that Minister Plibersek was writing to her state counterparts in Tasmania calling for an extreme intervention to prevent the possible extinction of this skate. What is this extreme intervention? Will it include getting salmon farms out of Macquarie Harbour?