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Australian salmon should be avoided according to the experts.

Want to avoid farmed Atlantic salmon? Get hooked on these alternatives instead

Experts advise avoiding the Tasmanian-farmed fish variety following recent catastrophic events. Here are some alternative – and more sustainable – catches to try instead.

  • Ardyn Bernoth

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Taylor Rogers, 15, fishing at Darling Harbour on Saturday.

The ‘FishTok’ craze getting teenage boys outside

A social media trend is encouraging teenage boys to get off video games and spend the weekend fishing with mates.

  • Kayla Olaya
Blue groper.

Fishing ban extended to protect blue gropers in NSW

The decision comes after research showing the population of the beloved fish has plummeted in Greater Sydney.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Retired chief investigator for Victorian Fisheries Murray Donaldson.

Fears of poaching and fraud as state fisheries officers are sacked

Industry experts warn criminals will quickly move back into illegal fishing and poaching once fisheries officer stocks are slashed.

  • Bianca Hall and Benjamin Preiss
A blue groper in Clovelly, Sydney, in December 2023.

Sydney’s beloved blue gropers are disappearing. Can we slow their demise?

It’s the state fish of NSW, yet its population has been halved in Greater Sydney and the Mid North Coast over the past 12 years.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Swimmers at Coogee Beach after hundreds of dead fish washed ashore.

Failed net to blame for dead fish washed up on Perth beach

The “unintended failure” of a commercial fishing net has been blamed for an event that forced the closure of a Perth beach.

  • Claire Ottaviano
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A bluefin tuna which fetched at 207 million yen (US$1,315,485) at the first auction of the year, is displayed at Toyosu Market in Tokyo Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025.

Tuna weighing as much as a grizzly bear sells for $2.1 million in Japan

One of the most expensive bluefin tuna to be sold in the history of sushi was snapped up by a Michelin-starred Japanese restaurant chain.

  • Leo Sands
Alexandrium minutum is normally found in clean water off the coast, but was detected this month in the Shoalhaven River.

Deadly algae detected in popular NSW river

A rare toxic algae that can prove fatal to humans has been detected just weeks after a catastrophic industrial accident.

  • Catherine Naylor
sea lion!

WA’s new mega-marine park ‘misses the science’ in thwarted ambition: expert

This vast plan, which attracted 22,000 public comments, has had a fatal drop in protections at the final hour and will now never do what the government promises, an expert says.

  • Emma Young
Portrait of Guy Verney, casting a wet fly for rainbow trout in Yandyguinula Creek. Trout fishers have been surprised by a recent NSW government decision to halt stocking of the non-native species in several creeks in the Southern Tablelands. Monday 20 May 2024.

Trout fishing on the hook for threatened species’ survival

The popular pastime could be curtailed to save at-risk native species from extinction.

  • Mike Foley

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