EPA Tasmania is responsible for ensuring contemporary environmental regulation of the Salmon industry. This includes the day to day environmental regulation of marine and land based salmon farms through evaluating and assessing compliance against environmental conditions set out in Environmental Licenses. The EPA also provides input into the assessment process of marine farm developments that are undertaken in a separate government process.
To ensure progressive improvement of environmental management and regulatory systems for industry the EPA provides scientific input and support to research conducted by the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (UTas) and Fisheries Research and Development Corporation fish farm research projects.