Salmon farmers shrug off alert

TASMANIA'S lucrative salmon industry says global warming is just another risk that producers will learn to cope with. Much of Australia's favourite seafood may be threatened by the effects of climate change, and Tasmania's $220 million-plus salmon industry could be the hardest hit, a new CSIRO study warns. As well as salmon, which represents a third of the country's aquaculture production, commercially farmed banana prawns, mud crabs and barramundi are also in danger, the report says. Pheroze Jungalwalla, executive officer of the Tasmanian Salmonid Growers Association, said the industry had been monitoring the climate change debate for some time. "We take the issue seriously, but it is sometimes difficult to translate global and centennial predictions to our local regions and decadal timeframes, and indeed to separate the... [read full story]