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<P><A style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400"><STRONG>Deadly underwater
explosives</STRONG> used by Tasmania’s industrial salmon
producers are<STRONG> blinding, bruising and
killing fur seals.</STRONG></A></P>
<P><A style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">We need a global outcry
to protect seals and shame Australia’s salmon industry
into action. <STRONG>Tell the salmon industry to stop
using deadly seal crackers now!</STRONG></A></P>
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<P><STRONG>Protected fur seals are dying because of underwater bombs
called seal crackers being detonated by industrial salmon producers
in Tasmania, Australia.</STRONG></P>
<P>Seal crackers are designed to emit piercing noises and flashes of
light that reverberate through the ocean.</P>
<P>But they don't just scare seals: they also cause bone injuries,
soft tissue burns, prolapsed eye balls and in some cases death,
often from blunt force trauma.</P>
<P><A style="COLOR: #00abbd; FONT-WEIGHT: bold"
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/627353?t=1&akid=109844%2E15424008%2ETKjVew">Can
you sign the petition calling on Australia's Big Three salmon
producers - Huon Aquaculture, Tassal and Petuna - to stop using
deadly seal crackers and bring salmon pens onshore?</A></P>
<P><A style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">Floating salmon pens are not only a
disaster for the environment - depositing huge amounts of waste and
antibiotics into pristine marine environments - they are also a
magnet for hungry seals. </A></P>
<P><A style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">But instead of moving the pens
onshore away from the seal’s natural habitat, salmon producers
detonate explosive seal crackers whenever seals come close.
<STRONG>The Big Three Tasmanian producers have set off over 77,000
seal crackers in four years. </STRONG></A></P>
<P><A style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400">But these underwater explosives are
not the only risk to the seals - <STRONG>salmon producers also use
shotguns to fire lead-filled projectiles at seals</STRONG> which can
become embedded in their skin causing permanent injuries.</A></P>
<P><STRONG> will you help create a global outcry to shame the
salmon industry into action?</STRONG></P>
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your voice: demand Huon Aquaculture, Tassal and Petuna stop using
dangerous seal crackers and shotguns now.</A></P>
<P>Tasmania, the island state off the south-coast of mainland
Australia, is a pristine marine wilderness and one of the last
places you can touch land before you reach Antarctica.
<STRONG>Whales, dolphins, protected Australian fur seals and rare
New Zealand long nosed seals share the ocean with species found
nowhere else.</STRONG></P>
<P>First Nations people in Tasmania/lutruwita, who have been looking
after the land and ocean for centuries have been speaking up against
commercial fish producers in their waters because of its impact on
the whole ecosystem.</P>
<P>They know the salmon industry is a massive threat; diseases
spread from crowded salmon pens to wild fish and large marine
animals get caught and tangled in the nets.</P>
<P><STRONG>People power has already successfully pushed the salmon
industry to change.</STRONG> After a big public outcry over Scottish
salmon producers shooting seals, a ban was put in place there to
protect the seals. And SumOfUs members helped stop the Millstone
Point salmon farm expansion in Scotland too.</P>
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<P>Thanks for all that you do, <BR>Nish, Nick and the team at
SumOfUs</P><BR>
<P><EM><SPAN style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">More
information:</SPAN></EM></P>
<DIV class=page-link><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/627354?t=15&akid=109844%2E15424008%2ETKjVew"
rel=noopener target=_blank>Tasmania’s salmon industry detonates
underwater bombs to scare away seals – but at what cost?</A><BR>The
Conversation. 17 September 2021.</DIV>
<DIV class=page-link><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/627355?t=16&akid=109844%2E15424008%2ETKjVew"
rel=noopener target=_blank>Conservationists call for ban on
explosives to scare seals at salmon farm in federal waters off
Tasmania</A><BR>The Guardian. 21 March 2022.</DIV>
<DIV class=page-link><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/627356?t=17&akid=109844%2E15424008%2ETKjVew"
rel=noopener target=_blank>Huon Aquaculture accounts for 75% of seal
deaths at Tasmanian salmon farms in past year</A><BR>The Guardian. 9
May 2022.</DIV>
<DIV class=page-link><A
href="https://act.sumofus.org/go/627357?t=18&akid=109844%2E15424008%2ETKjVew"
rel=noopener target=_blank>Tasmania's salmon industry must reform
and be more transparent, parliamentary inquiry says</A><BR>ABC. 24
May 2022.</DIV></TD></TR>
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