

Fish Farms, is this the right industry for Port Stephens waters? Aquaculture Threatens Tourism
On Wednesday 22nd a significant turn out of Port Stephens residents attended a Public Information forum called by the Marine Parks Association to discuss the proposed plans to locate a large King fish farm in waters offshore from Port Stephen between Cabbage Tree and Broughton Islands. The project will be jointly managed by NSW DPI Fisheries and Tasmanian salmon farmer Huon Aquaculture. If the initial trials with 2 large research fish pens are successful it is planned to depl