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Shipmaster fined $15k over cattle deaths resulting from MV Statesman 2016 Bass Strait voyage

The captain of the vessel on which dozens of cattle died after being exposed to severe weather during a Bass Strait crossing put commercial interests ahead of the welfare of the animals, a magistrate has ruled.

Shipmaster John McGee pleaded guilty last year to one count of using a method of management likely to result in unreasonable and unjustifiable pain and suffering over the 2016 voyage on the MV Statesman.

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