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Have your say on relocation of salmon farms in the Marlborough Sounds.
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The Minister for Primary Industries wants to hear your views on a proposal to amend the Marlborough Sounds resource management plan to enable relocation of up to six salmon farms.
The relocation may have an impact on your use of the Sounds as a boatie.
Relocation is being considered as a way to:
- ensure the environmental outcomes from salmon farming are improved through implementation of benthic (seabed) best management practice
- potentially improve the social and cultural outcomes from salmon farming by creating jobs
- move salmon farms away from areas of high-competing use
- maintain or increase the economic benefits from salmon farming.
Consultation is open now and runs until March 27, 2017. Public meetings will be held during the consultation period.
For more information, including maps of the relocation sites, click here
