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Source: AAP |
11/23/2020 |
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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. |
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"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. |
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