Tonnes of fish dumped
PA Nelson About seventeen tonnes - of ,hoki, filleted ,and. cartoned for the export mar■’ketjsyas 1 dumped ' On Thursday at the Nelson tip:,—-’-at Jeast, most of‘ it’ -was. But many Nelsonians have already eaten some of the bolji, Skeggs Foods, Xtd} had condemned to the tip. < A number of cartons ■ were gi ven away before the truck -reached the tip . and' . one. who tasted the fish reported: “It was-excellent.” ./“We cooked it with fresh tarakihi and I sam-
pled both deliberately to ' cornparfe “tfieih* — there was no difference, he -said. 6- . • Although the fish Was still edible; Skeggs Foods had decided to dump it as it was-below export quality, Said the firm’s Nelson manager. Mr Bryan Skeggs, yesterday. “It had been too long in cool storage. It is preferable that any frozen product is eaten within six months.” .Mr Skeggs declined to say. how long the fish had been, in cool storage but confirmed that 17 tonnes of the’ cartoned fillets had been dumped.
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