Environment Protection Authority says blooms are ‘natural occurrence’ as marine scientist warns it has grown ‘significantly’ in recent hours ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The state’s environmental watchdog has inspected a beach in Southern Tasmania following reports of dead fish washing up on ...

The Department of natural resources and environment (NRE) and the environment protection agency (EPA) on Monday released a “reflections and learnings” report into the mass mortality event from January ...

The red handfish is a funny little critter that uses its fins to scuttle along the rocky seafloor. Dwelling exclusively in the waters off Tasmania, it is also one of the rarest fish in the world. So ...

The first results from environmental testing following the use of the antibiotic florfenicol to treat fish in salmon farms ...

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 ...

Richard Flanagan's new novel resembles one of those otherworldly globefish that ply their lightless rounds along the Pacific's Mariana Trench. Flanagan has sounded the depths of his native Tasmania's ...