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Animal Justice has filed a legal complaint with animal welfare authorities after an employee witnessed sentient fishes being violently abused and killed at Sustainable Blue, a so-called \u201csustainable\u201d land-based salmon farm in Burlington, Nova Scotia. A video of these shocking acts shows fishes being stomped to death and bashed against tanks.<\/p>\n
At Sustainable Blue, fishes are killed regularly if they are deemed sick or slow-growing. In the video, a worker is seen stomping on a salmon\u2019s head twice to kill the fish. In another clip, a supervisor is seen killing two fishes\u2014one who is pregnant\u2014by brutally slamming them multiple times against the side of a tank.<\/p>\n
This supervisor claims there is no protocol for killing the fishes, and that there is \u201cno right way\u201d and \u201cno wrong way\u201d to carry it out.<\/p>\n
Fishes are complex, sentient beings who can feel pain and suffer, and it\u2019s illegal to subject them to abuse. These methods of killing clearly cause suffering to the fishes, and violate provincial and national animal cruelty laws. Animal Justice is urging authorities to investigate these brutal acts and hold the facility to account for illegal animal cruelty.<\/p>\n
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