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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?"

34% of shareholders defied the Woolworths Board and voted at the AGM in favour of a resolution requiring Woolworths to report on the impact of its farmed salmon on threatened species. This is a strong increase on the 30% vote to help Save the Skate at last year's Woolworth's AGM, and the highest vote on a nature-based resolution for the...

Neighbours of Fish Farming (NOFF) completely rejects the Terms of Reference for the Government's "enquiry into the salmon farming industry." The Tasmanian Government has shocked and angered community groups with its Terms of Reference for the promised salmon study.

With no advance notice, the Tasmanian Government yesterday introduced the terms of reference for the proposed Salmon Inquiry. Independent Peter George, and the Greens, have rejected the terms as completely unacceptable.