Union Pushes Back Against Environment Group’s Claims Against Tasmania’s Salmon Industry

Salmon in an aquarium. Vlad Vasnetsov / Pixabay

The Australian Workers’ Union (AWU) is fighting for Tasmania’s billion-dollar salmon industry amid accusations of rampant environmental and animal abuse.

The AWU has blamed environmental groups for inflicting devastating damage on the state’s Atlantic Salmon farming industry through the “significant and deliberate misinformation about its ecological and animal welfare impacts.”