“The fate of the skate literally rises and falls alongside salmon production."

“A recent environmental DNA study … has demonstrated that the vast majority, if not all, of the current population of Maugean skate live only in Macquarie Harbour,” the report reads. A conservation report by the government’s threatened species scientific committee last year said the skate should be considered critically endangered, estimating there were between 40 and 120 adult skates remaining in the wild."
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Albanese sparks anger with pledge over controversial salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour

Prime minister tells Salmon Tasmania of promise to change legislation and allow ‘sustainable’ farming to continue

^{Emily Wind (The Guardian)}