I was contacted by the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association to make an amendment to a previous blog post. I’m happy to receive feedback and correct any misinformation that’s out there.
The passage has been changed from this:
I have heard that the tuna are slaughtered pen-side and all the discards flow back into the same waters where the fish are reared. If this is the case then, diseases such as these would become amplified. Could they perhaps have one slaughter pen where selected individuals are corralled into, this net moved to a different location where the processing boat/barge is sited?
To this:
If fish were slaughtered pen-side and all the discards flow back into the same waters where the fish are reared, then diseases such as these would become amplified. Fortunately, all byproducts are captured by gutters and bins around harvest tables and are transported to an onshore processing facility for rendering.
See full, edited, blog post at this link –
