Here’s why a politician held up a ‘rotten, stinking, extinction salmon’ in parliament

Sarah Hanson-Young, a senator for Australia’s Greens Party, held up a fish in parliament in protest of new legislation that would support salmon fishing in the country’s southern island state of Tasmania. The legislation could affect of the Maugean skate, a ray whose sole habitat is the Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania, according to Australia’s Marine Conservation Society.