Opened the debate
Bleyer moved the motion to take note of the Minister's answer, arguing that the government prioritised corporate interests over threatened species. Bleyer highlighted her ongoing legal action against the Minister for the Environment and Water to control fish farming in Macquarie Harbour. Bleyer stated that the industrial scale of fish cages had caused oxygen levels to plummet, creating suffocation risks for the endangered Maugean skate. Bleyer warned that the species faced imminent extinction, exacerbated by the strongest El Nino on record, and urged the government to end industrial fish farming to honour its promise of no extinctions.