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Australia
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Clean and Green
Aquaculture |
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Clean and Green
Aquaculture -
Kate Paton
Environmental issues have been targeted as the major
challenges facing Australia's aquaculture industry.
A national workshop on Sustainable Aquaculture in
Melbourne this week, has resolved to introduce a
national framework and new standards to ensure
industry complies with environmental objectives.
Chairman of the National Aquaculture Council and
Chairman of the South Australian body Bruce Zippell
says aquaculture must not only be clean and green
but get that message out to the public as well. "If
we don't get it right, everybody becomes the
loser...we are basically the canary of the
environment as such where if something starts to go
wrong with the environment, we're the first ones to
suffer so it's important that we get it right but
it's also important that we communicate what we're
doing and if someone else is doing something that
impacts on what we do which is the marine
environment and the freshwater environment, we will
scream our heads off to make sure that the general
community is also aware of it" he said.
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