Tasmanians are concerned about the marine environment and feel negatively about the salmon industry, according to a new CSIRO survey.
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority has just suspended the salmon industry's permit to use the controversial antibiotic florfenicol in Tasmanian waters.
Right now, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) is considering whether to suspend the permit for florfenicol in Tasmania's south-east waters.
Documents obtained using Right to Information laws validate the questions and concerns the Greens and environmentalists have been raising for months about the use of florfenicol.
Florfenicol has been found in wild caught fish, including abalone and lobsters, up to ten kilometres away from salmon farms, according to a statement published by NRE Tas.
After Greens and community pressure, a new Direction has been issued under the Biosecurity Act that finally requires stricter requirements for reporting farmed salmon mortalities.
The closure of a further area of the southern rock lobster fishery due to the florfenicol used by salmon farming companies is deeply disappointing.
Tassal has expanded the use of the antibiotic florfenicol to their salmon pens at Roaring Beach, according to the EPA.
Reports the public weren't informed immediately of Huon Aquaculture’s use of antibiotics in the River Derwent hatchery are profoundly alarming.
The salmon farming industry is in denial about the shocking number of salmon that died last year, with CEO John Whittington describing it on ABC Radio as “a fact of life”.