Tasmanian salmon company Huon Aquaculture is continuing its expansion plans with a 76-metre-long vessel to work their Southern Tasmanian fish farms.
The $85 million well-boat is the first of its kind in Tasmania and will be used to transport salmon and to bath fish.
Huon Aquaculture's CEO Peter Bender says the well-boat can carry 3,000 tonnes of fresh water to transport live, adult and baby fish and to bath salmon as a means of preventing amoebic gill disease.
He expects the well-boat will reduce the number of tows on their farms by over one-thousand a year.
Leased from it's Norwegian builder, the Ronja Huon will also allow Huon Aquaculture to continue to shift its fish farms further offshore.
