Tasmanian salmon farms blocked from using antibiotic florfenicol after detection in wild fish 10km away

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

Tasmanian salmon deaths halved in March, indicating mass mortality event is over, EPA says

Tasmania's Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has reported a decline in fish deaths after a mass salmon die off in the state's south-east earlier this year. The EPA says water quality monitoring ...
The Australian

Tasmania’s dead fish election bounce

Dead fish are a huge talking point in Tasmania, especially dead Tasmanian farmed salmon. We know this because South Australian Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young produced a large dead Tasmanian salmon ...

Proposal to suspend Tasmanian salmon industry’s florfenicol use in wake of testing results

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 ...

Tasmanian salmon farming emergency licence for antibiotic florfenicol revoked over 'unacceptable risk'

The use of florfenicol in Tasmania's salmon industry has been banned as the country's veterinary medicine regulator suspends ...
SlashGear

Second Population Of World's Rarest Fish Found Near Tasmania

Researchers with the University of Tasmania Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies have announced the discovery of a new population of the world's rarest fish. The discovery was made by ...
Science Daily

Nine new species for Tasmania's disappearing handfish family

Nine new species of handfish have been described by Australian scientists in research that highlights an urgent need to better understand and protect the diversity of life in Australia's oceans. The ...

Salmon Tasmania fighting proposal by regulator to revoke its licence to use antibiotic florfenicol

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 ...

Health, environment departments questioned 'evidence' cited in initial salmon antibiotic approval for florfenicol in Tasmanian waterways

Tasmania's health department and environment watchdog questioned the scientific rigour behind an application to use the antibiotic florfenicol in salmon farms, including a lack of evidence about its ...
The Mercury

BioMar SmartCare Endurance aquafeed to be used in Tasmanian salmon industry to help protect fish

BioMar, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of sustainable feed for fish farming, has created the new SmartCare Endurance aquafeed, which the company says can boost the survivability of salmon by ...
heraldsun.com.au

Mass fish escape prompts call for salmon farm transparency

Thousands of salmon escaped into the Huon River this month, but if it weren’t for the keen eyes of Tasmanian anglers, the public would’ve been none the wiser. One group is tired of being kept in the ...