‘Unlawful’ Barra Stocking
An “extraordinary gamble” to stock hundreds of tonnes of barramundi at a Port Douglas prawn farm site before the company had the right environmental approvals in place has cost the company and its director $360,000 in fines.
MainStream Aquaculture Queensland farmed about $5.9m worth of barramundi “essentially unlawfully” in 2022 and 2023, Cairns Magistrates Court has been told.
By November 2023, it had more than half a million barramundi onsite at its operation north of Port Douglas with a biomass of 750 tonnes...
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