Dead fish, believed to be pilchards that washed ashore on southern Tasmanian beaches on Saturday have tested positive for pilchard orthomyxovirus. But experts say the disease that caused the ...

Pilchards and sardines are the same species of fish, but at different stages of the life cycle. According to Fishing Tasmania, sardines are the smaller of the two, growing up to 25 centimetres or ...

The fish were seen along a roughly 5-kilometre stretch of coastline. 'King tides' may have aided disease Francisca Samsing, a veterinarian and senior university lecturer in aquatic animal health ...