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It is one of two organisations to file appeals against a decision giving the go-ahead to the country's first open ocean salmon farm.

Sea life under New Zealand King Salmon's Te Pangu farm. New Zealand's largest salmon farmer has pulled its request to extend a farm into colder waters, saying it wants to “do right” by Marlborough. New Zealand King Salmon asked the Marlborough District Council in 2018 to extend a farm further into the waters of Te Pangu Bay, in Kura te Au/Tory Channel, and harvest an extra 250 tonnes of king salmon a year. It estimated this would add $1.1 million to New Zealand's GDP. The company was struggling with high numbers of fish deaths at farms in the Marlborough Sounds and hoped a site with fas...

A farm in Forsyth Bay – which the company had retested – was deemed “significantly non-compliant” due to pollution under its pens, caused by fish waste and uneaten fish food falling to the bed. Compliance was judged against a farm’s resource consent conditions and guidelines laid down by central and local government to encourage “environmentally responsible” aquaculture – both of which the farm in Te Hoiere/Pelorus Sound breached. A council spokesman said last week the new samples could not be used to check compliance because they were taken outside the annual inspection�...