Australian Marine Conservation Society

Tassal’s climate report states 1°C of warming raises deaths from 15 to 18.5 per 100 fish, but does not disclose the financial impact of those deaths. UTS Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF) estimates this loss at $23.7 million per year in dead salmon. Tasmanian waters have been 2-3°C above average since at least August, with strong-to-severe heatwaves forecast into Christmas...

Tasmania’s cold waters support some of the country’s most remarkable marine life, including giant kelp forests and our living dinosaur, the endangered Maugean skate, a species found nowhere else on Earth. But those same waters are heating up, fast.

As we head into a 2026/27 Summer influenced by a possible strong El Niño¹, with global ocean temperatures already breaking monthl...

2026 is the 80th anniversary of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling, and the 40th anniversary of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. The 70th International Whaling Commission meeting opens in Hobart on Monday 28th September. Whales are still under threat globally, despite progress made since the 1982 moratorium on commercial whaling. Australia’s e...