Over 50,000 salmon escape into wild after fish farm fire in Tasmania

Over 50,000 salmon escape into wild after fish farm fire in Tasmania

Source: AAP

11/23/2020

Over 50,000 salmon escape into wild after fish farm fire in Tasmania

The blaze broke out at a Huon Aquaculture farm in D'Entrecasteaux Channel south of Hobart today.

"We are estimating that we have lost between 50,000-52,000 four kilogram fish," Huon Aquaculture CEO, Peter Bender, said.

An investigation into the fire, which damaged a third of one pen above and below the waterline, is ongoing.

"We have electrical equipment on our pens but in 35 years of farming we have never had an electrical fire on a fish pen so the cause has baffled us," Bender said.

The company has informed wildlife and environment authorities in Tasmania.

Citing a 2018 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies report on escaped farmed fish, Bender was confident the mass escape won't harm native animals.

Salmon, Atlantic

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