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500,000 prematurely dead salmon in three months show Tasmania's salmon industry is unable to operate ethically and sustainably.

The Tasmanian Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has today confirmed community concerns over biological material found ashore at Verona Sands on Christmas Day, with analysis confirming the material was dead Atlantic Salmon.

Reports and images are now coming in of what looks to be red tide in Randalls Bay, Little Roaring Beach, Eggs and Bacon Bay, Little Taylors Bay, Dover / Port Esperance and elsewhere up and down the Huon Channel. Through Bob Brown Foundations website, Salmon Busters, reports of 15-20 dead sea cucumbers washing up along with dead octopuses and...

Breaking news - Premier confirms florfenicol is the cause of the shutdown

IP Australia has granted a 20 year patent to Chilean firm Ocean Arks Tech for a large vessel for aquaculture operations in the deep sea. Ocean Ark also has patents in Chile and the USA, countries selected on a strategic basis.

On the day of the Government approval for the use of florfenicol, Tassal started using it at two salmon farm leases at Dover in Tasmania's far south. Shortly after, the director of public health, Mark Veitch, issued a statement recommending people consider not consuming fish caught within three kilometres of pens being treated by florfenicol (ABC...

Salmon state capture reaches new depths: with today's EPA approval of the highly-contentious antibiotic, florfenicol, the regulator and the Government fail Tasmania yet again.

The regulator, industry and Tasmanian Government put profit and self-interest before the health of our waterways last summer. NOFF asks: "Why was this disastrous event not considered an environmental pollution incident?"