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Environment
Ethan James

Animal welfare probe amid mass salmon farm deaths

The RSPCA has suspended Huon Aquaculture's certification to probe its handling of live salmon. (HANDOUT/BOB BROWN FOUNDATION)

The RSPCA has suspended its certification of a salmon company as part of an investigation into footage showing workers sealing live and dead fish in a bin. 

The industry in southeast Tasmania is in the grips of an unprecedented mass mortality event that resulted in 5500 tonnes of dead salmon being sent to waste facilities in February. 

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