Coroner & Legal
Seafish Tasmania fined $40,000. EPA investigation cost $100,000
Seafood processing company Seafish Tasmania has been fined $40,000 for breaching the state’s environmental laws.
The company pleaded guilty to dumping more than 1,000 truckloads of fish processing waste water from its Triabunna plant on a private property in the township in 2012.
Seafish has also admitted to dumping waste water at an unnamed creek on Tasmania’s east coast three years ago.
The Magistrate’s Court in Hobart has heard the company and landowners have conducted remedial work at a cost of $21,000.
Magistrate Chris Webster recorded a conviction on each charge and imposed the fine, together with court costs.
Tasmania’s Environmental Protection Authority said the fine was appropriate.
Director Wes Ford said it would act as a significant deterrent but he estimated the investigation itself cost the EPA more than $100,000.