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Agriculture Minister Mark Furner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 14, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Queensland transport company has been fined $25,000 and a truck driver $5000 for moving cattle from a ticky area through a cattle tick-free zone.<\/p>\n

This is the first prosecution under the Biosecurity Act 2014 for a failure to comply with the general biosecurity obligation.<\/p>\n

The prosecution arose after the company moved the cattle without undertaking reasonable actions to prevent a cattle tick infestation in the free zone.<\/p>\n

In handing down her sentence, Dalby Magistrate Tracy Mossop considered that the company had taken action to remedy the situation with the affected landholders, including the payment of $16,000 towards eradication costs.<\/p>\n

She said it was self-evident the cattle should not have been moved from the infested zone into the free zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAlternatively, the cattle should have been treated and been the subject of a clean inspection before such a journey,” Magistrate Mossop said. <\/p>\n

“Regardless of who was obligated to attend to such treatment, protocols and procedures should have been in place for dealing with tick-infested stock.\u201d <\/p>\n

Agriculture Minister Mark Furner said the fines should serve as a reminder that anyone moving cattle needs to have appropriate biosecurity risk management strategies in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, the cattle were visibly infested with cattle ticks and were not treated before being moved through the cattle tick-free zone,\u201d Mr Furner said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring an unscheduled stop in the cattle tick-free zone to check on the cattle, several escaped from the truck. This led to a cattle tick infestation on two nearby properties inside the cattle tick-free zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“As a result two properties were placed under movement restrictions and had to undertake a cattle tick eradication program.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody must take reasonable and practical actions to manage biosecurity risks that are under their control and that they know about, or should reasonably be expected to know about.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf livestock are moved from the cattle tick infested zone through the cattle tick-free zone and back into the infested zone, producers and transport operators must comply with the general biosecurity obligation and also any specific regulations that apply.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, transporting obviously infested cattle on this particular route without treatment meant that when they escaped there was no way of reducing the risk they posed.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the actions that could have been implemented include travelling a different route, or treating the cattle before leaving and waiting until they were tick free.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a perfect demonstration of what can go wrong when somebody does not make a reasonable effort to manage an obvious biosecurity risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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