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Landslide wipes out main salmon farm in NZ

A New Zealand Salmon farm, Anatoki Salmon, has lost all its stock for the next two years after a large landslide wiped out its main farm.

According to stuff.co.nz, the landslide ruined the main part of the freshwater salmon farm, which contained between 50,000 and 70,000 adult and young salmon.

"We have worked so hard for eight years, and now it’s all gone," said Jan Dissel, who runs the property with Gerda Dissel.

The pair have since been trying to save between 60,000 and 80,000 salmon eggs and salmon fry in the hatchery after its water supply was cut off by the landslide.

The salmon farm on the Anatoki River began in 1998 as Golden Bay Salmon Fishing and began trading as Anatoki Salmon Farm in July 2001 before being bought by the Dissels in 2005.

Anatoki Salmon has since grown into a tourist hotspot, where visitors are able to catch their own salmon.

 

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