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Dark MOFO Winter Feast visitors are being asked a confronting question by a major art installation in Mawson Place, Hobart, featuring a large-scale image with religious overtones … and a clear message about the destructive impact of unsustainable salmon farming.

Tasmania's environment regulator has rejected a request that it notify the public in real time when salmon companies use antibiotic-coated feed at fish farms in the state's waterways. The Tasmanian Inquirer asked the Environmental Protection Authority to disclose details of antibiotic use at fish farms so recreational fishers and the public would...

A billboard calling on Federal Environment Minister, Tanya Plibersek, to act now to save a 60-million-year-old marine animal from extinction was installed in front of the Minister's Sydney electorate office this morning. Tasmanian community group, Neighbours of Fish farming (NOFF) has hired the billboard space to demand urgent action under Federal...

News that Tasmania's largest farmed salmon producer, Tassal, shot and killed 53 native birds trapped in substandard feedlot netting has outraged coastal communities in the state. Tassal, owned by Canada's Cooke Aquaculture, received permission from the state's environmental authority to shoot great cormorants after 641 found their way through the...

36 great cormorants died after becoming entangled in bird netting, and 53 were legally shot by Tassal staff, who had been granted permits by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment. The Tasmanian government approved the shooting after substandard netting allowed hundreds of the birds to enter fish cages at a salmon farm near Hobart.

A combination of natural events may have given Macquarie Harbour a temporary reprieve from its health crisis but the Maugean skate remains under threat of extinction and the need for urgent action remains.

In a first for the new Tasmanian Parliament, cross-bench MPs and Parties have joined forces in calling for a full, independent and transparent inquiry into the state's EPA. Community group, NOFF, sought the MPs' support amidst mounting concerns about the EPA's role in monitoring and regulating the state's natural heritage on land and in water.

The Japan Times reports that fermented herring, a Swedish delicacy, holds such a special place in the country's culture that national newspapers review each year's vintage and the first sale of the year receives hype akin to the first Beaujolais of the season. It's also an acquired taste; social media videos abound of brave folks trying a food...