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Submission Date: 15/12/2017 9:45:59 PM Submission No: 1 Given Name: Michael Family Name: Brennan Submission Type: Organisation Organisation: Commonminds Which category best describes your interest: Ocean Cluture and Enviroment Comments in relation to draft amendment: Please consider that the Industries being supported are of unsustainable practice and the proposed sites will have irreversible negative effects on our Community and Important related Industries as well as our natural enviroment and ecosystem habitats that are connected to these areas. Please do not hesitate to contact me ASAP. Thankyou Mike Attachments: No Request for Hearing: Yes Confidential box checked: No Comments Commercial in Confidence (yes/no): Yes Submission Date: 15/12/2017 11:55:16 PM Submission No: 2 Given Name: jacob Family Name: walsh Submission Type: Individual Organisation: Which category best describes your interest: because i surf and fish Comments in relation to draft amendment: Attachments: No Request for Hearing: No Confidential box checked: No Comments Commercial in Confidence (yes/no): No Submission Date: 18/12/2017 5:18:21 AM Submission No: 3 Given Name: stephen Family Name: roberts Submission Type: Individual Organisation: Which category best describes your interest: Community Comments in relation to draft amendment: TASSAL seems to be expending and doing very little by way of minimising their visual impact through sensible and innovative marine engineering practices , so as to develop equipment and processes that are less visually obvious and distracting to the rest of us. Better water filtration for instance that will remove reliance on locating these unsightly pens in areas simply to take best advantage of ocean currents and natural water purity. Lower visual impact pens that do not need to 'tower' out of the water to reduce predator impacts. Grouping so that rather than having lines of pens reaching across horizons, the pens can be group closer together, again with some innovation of engineering to manage water quality and waste removal issues. I would ask that TASSAL demonstrate that they have exhausted possibilities in these areas before grasping at the cheaper and easier option of filling our waterways and views, with their fish pens Attachments: No Request for Hearing: No Confidential box checked: No Comments Commercial in Confidence (yes/no): No Submission Date: 26/12/2017 1:29:35 AM Submission No: 4 Given Name: Fraser Family Name: Petrie Submission Type: Individual Organisation: Which category best describes your interest: Community Comments in relation to draft amendment: Marine Farming submission - ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY DRAFT AMENDMENT NO.5 TO THE TASMAN PENINSULA AND NORFOLK BAY MARINE FARMING DEVELOPMENT PLAN – From Tassal Response to EIS 1. Environmental Outcome: While is it pleasing to see that there will be baseline environmental measurements carried out prior to the installation of the marine farm equipment (I am not qualified to know the value of the baseline measurements) and that there will be continued monitoring of the environmental impact of the farming operations. I would like to know that the findings will be available to the public so we can also understand the impact this farming is having on Storm Bay. I also want to understand what the “red Lines” are in regards to environmental impact, what environmental impacts the EPA will set as unacceptable, and what are the penalties. 2. Fish Faeces Discharged: The EIS forecasts >4000 tons of fish faeces per annum to be dumped into Storm bay. Why is the proponent not collecting these faeces in the same way it collects the “morts”, ie vacuuming up from the bottom of the nets. 4000 tons is a significant amount of faeces, especially given that a further two farms are being proposed in the bay and the total annual discharge into Storm bay exceeds 10,000 tons. 3. Collective Impact on Storm Bay: While the EIS looks at the impact of this farm, where is the total impact of all farms being modelled and understood? The cumulative impacts of these fish farm proposals could exceed the impact of the three in isolation. Also none of the EIS for the proposals discuss the final destination for fish farming in storm bay, I understand this may be the government regulators role, but I believe the community would have a greater acceptance if they could see the big picture of where this industry will end up. Thank you for considering the concerns regarding ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY DRAFT AMENDMENT NO.5 TO THE TASMAN PENINSULA AND NORFOLK BAY MARINE FARMING DEVELOPMENT PLAN. Regards Fraser Petrie Attachments: No Request for Hearing: No Confidential box checked: No Comments Commercial in Confidence (yes/no): No Submission Date: 1/01/2018 2:01:02 AM Submission No: 5 Given Name: Matthew Family Name: Morgan Submission Type: Organisation Organisation: Wild Fishers against the Salmon ( Finfish) Farms Which category best describes your interest: Commercial / Recreational Fishing and a Concerned Citizen of Tasmania Comments in relation to draft amendment: It is Immoral that This Proposal is to Go Ahead It need An Inquiry on Why this Proposal Coincides with Christmas Holidays and the Short time For Submissions Adaptive Management to be OutLawed We must Teturn To proper Environmetal and Ecological impact Studies Any Less than that is Dereliction of Duty of a Public Waterway and the Government and the Department Responsable Should be Held Accountable A Complete Moratorium on Any more Sea Caged Salmon or Finfish Farms until they Zclean Up and Prove they can Sustainably Manage what they Have Already Got No other Course of Wction is Acceptable Attachments: No Request for Hearing: Yes Confidential box checked: No Comments Commercial in Confidence (yes/no): No Submission Date: 1/01/2018 2:11:35 AM Submission No: 6 Given Name: Chris Family Name: Chris Vonderborch Submission Type: Individual Organisation: Which category best describes your interest: Aquaculture industry Comments in relation to draft amendment: I attach a word file concerning salmon farm expansion in the Storm Bar area Attachments: Yes Request for Hearing: No Confidential box checked: No Comments Commercial in Confidence (yes/no): No OFFSHORE SALMON FARMING IN THE STORM BAY AREA, TASMANIA Some environmental concerns Chris vonderBorch, Professor Emeritus of Marine Geology, Flinders University Offshore salmon farming in the Nubeena region has been underway for a considerable period. However, we now see an on-going massive expansion, within and immediately outside Parsons Bay, with an even more massive expansion proposed for nearby Storm Bay, west of Wedge Island. In addition the number of salmon pens has increased significantly near the very restricted Parsons Bay area. A serious risk of pollution and environmental degradation is possible, due to excessive nutrient input into these areas. A concern, therefore, is the lack of independent baseline environmental studies, focussing on such relevant items as nutrient levels, before and after the expansion. Obviously it is far too late for the “before” part of such a survey. The fact that this was never carried out highlights our lack of knowledge of all the interactive aspects of a marine ecosystem. It also reflects disregard for the potential negative environmental effects of the huge amount of excess nutrient generation in such restricted waterways, related to the growing salmon farms. Effective oceanic circulation studies on a seasonal basis have not been made. Meaningful water turbidity and nutrient measurements are essentially non- existent. Yet the salmon farms continue to expand into the offshore environment. A very visible example is the huge “breakwater” of continually expanding salmon pens immediately outside the restricted waters of Parsons Bay. This “breakwater”, which indeed it is, comprises a chain of pens, each reaching almost to the sea-floor, and extending 1-2 Km along the coast, almost from the shoreline near the entrance to Parsons Bay. Do we know what effect this is having on the environment? Has an independent marine circulation study been carried out in relation to that “breakwater”? It is likely that such a study is non- existent I would like to suggest that human ignorance, and the ever-present desire for expansion, has increasingly dogged industrial developments on a global scale. This has resulted in the very obvious environmental disasters that we are increasingly witnessing today around the world. Do we wish to continue such behaviour? Or do we wish to be much more responsible in our interaction with the finite and fragile environment upon which all life depends? A responsible action would be to impose a moratorium on the expansion of salmon farming activities until all aspects have been carefully studied and assessed. Submission Date: 3/01/2018 10:24:36 PM Submission No: 7 Given Name: Dinah Family Name: Jones Submission Type: Individual Organisation: Which category best describes your interest: Community Comments in relation to draft amendment: The huge expansion of lease areas is very concerning in terms of boating safety. There are numerous reports of potentially hazardous objects (large pipes, lengths of rope, buoys and even a small pen) coming loose from current aquaculture operations. If the fish farming industry cant keep its waste under control now, how much worse will it be if this expansion is allowed to go ahead. The huge amounts of smaller debris being washed up on the foreshore and virtually ignored by the industry is also of great concern. Yes, sometimes the companies will go and do a token cleanup but, considering the extent of the problem, perhaps they should employ full time clean up crews. The other matter of great importance is visability. In rough seas, with spray flying, fish pens are extremely difficult to see, even duing the day. At night, in large swells, the lights on the leases are invisible for long periods of time.