Tassal

ABC's Four Corners investigates the business of Tasmanian salmon production, including intensive farming, chemical colouring, salmon under stress and pristine waterways suffering. Also raised Tassal's payments to WWF-Australia and to an independent auditor to achieve ASC certification of Tassal's production process. (Oct 2016)
[Source 2016][More on Oceans]

Fish farms maintained by this company in Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania are causing dire environmental and fish health impacts. Environmental problems with salmon farming in the area include nutrient pollution and dead zones, use of 1.7kg of wild fish to produce 1kg of farmed salmon, overcrowded sea cages, minimal monitoring and marine debris. Leaked documents tabled by the Greens reveal repeated breaches of licence conditions by this company, disease outbreaks and pollution.
[Source 2015][More on Oceans]

This companies has facilities which meet the Best Aquaculture Practices standards.
[Source 2014][More on Oceans]

In 2012 Tassal announced a new Sustainable Aquaculture Partnership with WWF Australia. Tassal's commitments include to be the leader in sustainable aquaculture production in Australia by 2015, with all existing and new products meeting best practice environmentally responsible standards; and to be the first aquaculture operation in the Asia-Pacific region to undergo and achieve Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification, once the eco-label becomes available.
[Source 2012][More on Oceans]

This company's CEO won a Banksia Sustainability Award in 2015 for demonstrating leadership through fully integrating sustainable principles and practices into operational activities, reducing the organisations' footprint and influencing and educating suppliers and customers.
[Source 2015][More on Governance]

This company has a number of sustainability claims on its website, including efforts in the areas of reducing the amount of wild fish and antibiotics used, environmental protection and community engagement.
[Source 2014][More on Sustainability Reporting]

Transcript from the ABC's 7:30 Report (2009). Issues raised include use of antibiotics, damage to marine environment, use of 4kg of wild fish to produce 1kg of farmed salmon, being called the "battery hens of the sea". Please note however that reliance of wild caught fish has reduced in recent years.
[Source 2009][More on Oceans]

Tassal operate salmon farms in Tasmania. Australia's Sustainable Seafood Guide recommends eating less farmed salmon (Orange rating). It's website states: produced in sea cages; carnivorous species that is dependent on wild caught fish that is manufactured into fish feed. While the amount of wild caught fish in feed has been reduced over recent years, the amount of wild-caught fish used in feed is currently more than the weight of salmon produced; localised impacts from salmon farming effluent are minor and short-lived; impacts of the industry on a broader ecological scale are less well understood; producers have reduced the use of antibiotics.
[Source 2014][More on Oceans]

The Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index is a comprehensive assessment of how this sector is managing critical sustainability risks such as climate change, increasing biodiversity loss, land use change and the growth in antibiotic resistance. This company was rated as medium risk.
[Source 2018][More on Habitats]