An aquaculture company has been fined $300,000 with convictions recorded after it was found guilty of multiple environmental offences, including releasing copper sulphate into a creek.

Mainstream Aquaculture Queensland faced Cairns Magistrates Court on eight charges brought against the company and its CEO, Boris Musa, by the state environment department.

The charges related to the release of water from its barramundi ponds into Queensland waterways, the use of copper sulphate, and stocking barramundi in the prawn farm.

The company's activities took place between 2022 and 2023 at a prawn farm near Port Douglas, which the company bought in 2021.

In September, magistrate Jakub Lodziak found the company guilty of five counts of unlawfully depositing a prescribed contaminant in Queensland w

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