PHOTOS: SUPPLIEDThe deliberate release of thousands of young fish from a Twizel salmon farm at the weekend has cost the business thousands of dollars and more negative effects could be on their way, farm staff say. On Friday night support ropes around a net at High Country Salmon were cut and about 6000 salmon released into the Ohau hydro canal and Lake Ruataniwha, business owner Peter Logan said. It was the first time the business had been attacked in that way in the 17 years it had been running. Farm manager John Jamieson said the 15cm-long salmon had been in the pen since October. Farm manager John Jamieson with a grown salmon.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 22, 2017 18:45 UTC