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

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 ...

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.

A freedom-of-information release reveals formal advice that salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour should cease while approval is reconsidered under federal environmental laws. The government backed the ...

A regulator has halted the use of a controversial antibiotic in Tasmanian salmon farms. A permit to use florfenicol was granted in November last year to combat a P. salmonis outbreak that killed at ...

Cabinet minister Jo Palmer says the Tasmanian government expects the salmon industry to adhere to a looming federal decision ...

Former environment minister Tanya Plibersek was advised by her department to revoke salmon farming approvals in Tasmania's Macquarie Harbour amid concerns about the industry's impact on the endangered ...

The federal agency that approved the use of an antibiotic for Tasmania's salmon industry has proposed to suspend that licence, in the wake of news the antibiotic has been found in native species.

Australia’s veterinary medicines regulator has suspended the use of the antibiotic florfenicol in Tasmanian salmon farms after traces of the drug were detected in wild fish ...

Australia's pesticides regulator has proposed suspending an emergency permit allowing the use of the antibiotic florfenicol in Tasmania's salmon industry after environmental monitoring detected the ...

The Tasmanian government has hopped on the PR road train to try to help rebuild public support for the island's salmon industry. "This is an industry that desperately wants the Tasmanian people's ...

More than four million farmed salmon died prematurely in Tasmania in 2025, according to newly released government data. Figures published Friday, Jan. 23, by Tasmania’s Environmental Protection ...