Australian lawmaker shocks senate with dead salmon stunt

An Australian lawmaker dangled a floppy dead salmon in the country's senate on Wednesday, accusing the government of falling hook, line and sinker for polluting industrial fish farms. 

Environmental advocates have questioned the practices of intensive salmon farms in the island state of Tasmania, accusing them of choking waterways with waste and fish faces. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she was fed-up to the gills with a government that refused to enforce more stringent environmental standards. 

Conservationists fear salmon farms are driving the extinction of the native Maugean skate, an endangered bottom-dwelling fish that looks something like a stingray.