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Salmon giant Tassal silent on mass death of fish near Port Arthur
Tasmanian aquaculture giant Tassal has reported a sizeable salmon mortality event affecting its Long Bay lease near Port Arthur in the state’s south but is refusing to detail the scale or cause of the deaths.
Key points:
- Five cages of salmon were involved in a mass mortality event at Tassal’s Long Bay lease
- The company is remaining silent on the suspected cause
- The Environmental Protection Authority was notified of salmon deaths last week
Tasmania’s Environment Protection Authority has confirmed Tassal notified it of increased mortality at Long Bay across five individual cages earlier this month.
Mass salmon mortality events must be reported if deaths are more than 0.25 per cent of salmon contained in a single cage per day for three…
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