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Dead Salmon Create Election Stink On Australian Island

Salmon pens belonging to the Tassal company located off Charlotte Cove, in the d'Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania. (Credit: AFP)

On a tree-lined beach in Australia's rugged island state of Tasmania, locals discovered popcorn-sized bits of dead salmon washed up along the sand.

When the stinky remains landed in Verona Sands, population 131, they stirred up a festering environment-versus-industry row shortly before Saturday's general elections.

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