More than a million salmon dumped after ‘unprecedented’ mass mortality at Tasmanian fish farms

Bob Brown Foundation's drone footage appears to show farm workers pumping live salmon into a tub carrying dead fish and then sealing it

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At least 1 million salmon died at Tasmanian fish farms and were dumped at landfill sites and rendering plants in February in what authorities and the industry described as an unprecedented" mass death triggered by a bacterium outbreak.

The revelation that waste facilities in Tasmania's south received more than 5,500 tonnes of dead salmon last month - equivalent to about 1.07 million full-grown Atlantic salmon, or 8% of total annual production in the state - followed weeks of reports of fatty chunks of fish washing up on beaches in the Huon Valley and on Bruny Island.

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