A man has been sentenced for filming and sharing a video of a woman performing a sex act on a live brown trout.

Ashley David Hallam initially denied charges of making or reproducing a bestiality product and possessing a bestiality product, but changed his plea to guilty earlier this year.

The charges relate to an i ncident in 2022 or early 2023, when Hallam filmed a woman performing a sex act on the live fish.

The graphic video showed the woman lying in the boat while a man held the fish and moved it against her vagina.

The video subsequently went viral on social media, prompting Tasmanian Police to investigate.

The couple that created the film was identified and arrested weeks later.

The woman was initially charged with the same offences as Hallam, but in the Hobart Magistrates

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