Market – November 23, 2020
52,000 salmon escape from Huon after fire burns through cage
Some 52,000 four-kilogram salmon swam free from a Huon Aquaculture farm in D'Entrecasteaux Channel in November after a pen caught alight. Photo: Huon
Tasmanian salmon farmer reports that blaze melted pen infrastructure.
In a post on Facebook, Huon Aquaculture writes that a fire broke out at one of its fish pens located in the D’Entrecasteaux Channel, Tasmania, Australia.
PHOTO: Huon
The fire damaged approximately a third of a pen, burning through and melting the pen infrastructure above and just below the waterline, resulting in an estimated fish loss between 50,000 – 52,000 fish.
“We’re pleased to say that none of our staff were injured, and the remaining fish were transferred to another pen. Multiple crews spent the entire day thoroughly searching the surrounding area including shorelines to retrieve any pen components that had come adrift during the fire,” it wrote.
