‘I’ve had a gutful’: Jacqui Lambie says salmon industry should get out of Macquarie Harbour

Independent Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie says salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour should be moved elsewhere. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has called on Tasmania’s salmon industry to stop farming in Macquarie Harbour on the state’s remote west coast, marking a dramatic intervention into a polarised debate with implications for the federal election.

“Macquarie Harbour has been a very hot, hot spud when it comes to the salmon industry for many, many years,” Senator Lambie told the Tasmanian Inquirer, “and it’s getting worse.”