Tassal staff legally killed 53 of the native birds with permission from the Department of Natural Resources and Environment
Right to Information documents show salmon farming company Tassal shot 53 great cormorants at Sheppards salmon lease, near Coningham, late last year.Right to Information documents show salmon farming company Tassal shot 53 great cormorants at Sheppards salmon lease, near Coningham, late last year.The Tasmanian government approved the shooting of dozens of cormorants after substandard netting allowed hundreds of the birds to enter fish cages at a salmon farm near Hobart.
“It seems like Orwellian doublespeak that Tassal claims they kill cormorants out of concern for animal welfare,” he said. The first the department knew of the issue was on 6 December, when Tassal submitted a monthly wildlife interactions report. The company’s report said that there had “been no changes in the exclusion infrastructure that could have led to this increased interaction”, but an attached spreadsheet noted that 20 cormorants had entered one cage through a hole in the netting.
A later file note reported that a Tassal representative had said the “shoot and scare” tactic was ineffective. “They noted that a cormorant would not move away even if the cormorant sitting next to it was shot,” it said.
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