Tasmanian Salmon Industry Wants Fast-Track Approval for Antibiotic

Murray Watt and the salmon industry

In 2022, soon after winning government after almost a decade in opposition, then environment minister Tanya Plibersek made a bold promise to the Australian public. It was a promise that had never been made before: there would be no new extinctions while the Albanese government was in power.

Tasmanian salmon industry wants fast-track approval for antibiotic

The Tasmanian salmon industry is hoping to get approval within weeks to use another antibiotic to treat farmed salmon, as it continues to grapple with an endemic bacterial disease.

Unapproved drug under consideration amid concerns of new salmon death event

Tasmanian government considering fast-tracking Florfenicol for salmon disease amid virus outbreak concerns.

Salmon industry scrambling for solutions following fish deaths

The Tasmanian aquaculture industry is seeking advice from the state government to address an endemic bacteria that has persisted in salmon farms and has been responsible for recent fish deaths at a Huon Aquaculture pen in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel.

Disease again impacting southern Tasmanian salmon farms

Environmental authorities say Piscirickettsia salmonis is "here to stay"