Regulator suspends permit due to ‘unacceptable risk’ antibiotic poses to other species in move welcomed by environmental campaigners ...

The use of florfenicol in Tasmania's salmon industry has been banned as the country's veterinary medicine regulator suspends an emergency licence for the antibiotic.

Tasmania's salmon industry is arguing the case to keep using an antibiotic being used to combat bacterial infection in fish stocks, as a possible ban on the drug's usage looms because of it being ...

Federal authorities have moved to suspend the Tasmanian salmon industry’s use of florfenicol after new data found low levels of the antibiotic in marine species more than 10 kilometres away from ...

EVERYONE has a favourite story about fish and chips — whether it is eating them on the beach or for a Friday night family feed. And now the search is on to find Tasmania’s best. The Tasmanian Seafood ...

Tasmania’s most popular recreational catch, sand flathead, is off the menu for fishers in the southeast after the state government closed the fishery indefinitely due to falling numbers.

Beachgoers at Ralphs Bay, including Lindisfarne mum Triona O’Neill, got a shock last week when they saw a dead 1.96cm Hoodwinker sunfish had washed ashore. The species - which can grow to 2300kg - is ...

Huon Aquaculture has launched a "full investigation" after video taken at one of its Tasmania fish farms showed live salmon being siphoned out of a pen and sealed in tubs with piles of dead salmon.

Anglers have been reporting reeling in 4kg and 5kg fish after two recent salmon escapes, but the company whose fish fled their pens says the escapees were only tiny smolt. The Environment Protection ...