CHLORINE SMELL: The area around the facility is closed off by police roadblocks and it smells like chlorine down by the water. The service vessel FDA Astri assists in the work. Photo: Naina Helen Jaama
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SIMANES (VG / ALTAPOSTEN): 15,000 liters of chlorine must have ended up right in the water at a salmon slaughterhouse.
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The consequence: 96,000 farmed salmon, which amounts to 400 to 460 tonnes of fish, are believed to be dead. The fire brigade says they can not do anything to collect the chlorine.
– This is a very unfortunate case. This will not happen, says Alta mayor Monica Nielsen (Labor) to VG.
– We know that this will have consequences for that area, but then we do not know the extent, what it has to say for the wildlife around the facility and how it will affect the sea area around, says the Alta mayor.
The chlorine emission came from Grieg Seafood’s slaughterhouse at Simanes in Alta:
– There has been an incident at the slaughterhouse at Simanes last night where chlorine has been released into the sea. Chlorine is normally used to disinfect the slaughter water, says Roger Pedersen, community contact at Grieg Seafood, to VG’s co-operation newspaper Altaposten.
– At present, we assume that 96,000 individuals of salmon in the waiting cages at the slaughterhouse are unfortunately dead, Pedersen says.
Here you see the waiting cages, right outside the slaughterhouse:
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