Salmon Tasmania, the state's peak body representing producers, believes such operations would be unviable and too costly. "In the event that 100 per cent land-based salmon farming did become ...

It’s a sentiment echoed by Tasmanian salmon worker Adam “Salty” Saltmarsh, a 23-year veteran of the industry who lives in Strahan, the port town on Macquarie Harbour.

Topic: Salmon farming in Tasmania has become a key election issue in the state, with a bacterial disease causing masses of dead fish to wash up on beaches outside Hobart.

The Tasmanian fish farming industry produces 75,000 tonnes of Atlantic salmon a year — 90 percent of Australia’s total output. But in the warm, summer temperatures, a bacterium had taken hold ...

But the bay only represents 10 percent of Tasmania's salmon industry and it is a gateway to rural tourism, the environmentalist Bob Brown told AFP in the weeks leading up to the election.

The wife of the late revered Labor Premier Jim Bacon has endorsed Luke Martin, one his protégés, to stand for parliament.

Wild Atlantic salmon are native to the Atlantic Ocean. No wild populations exist in Tasmania. But in Norway, where salmon farming originated, locals have been fishing for salmon for hundreds of years.

Salmon Tasmania, the state's peak body representing producers, believes such operations would be unviable and too costly. "In the event that 100 per cent land-based salmon farming did become ...

On a tree-lined beach in Australia's rugged island state of Tasmania, locals discovered popcorn-sized bits of dead salmon washed up along the sand. When the stinky remains landed in Verona Sands ...