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Introducing Steve
by Tassal
“It’s true our industry is growing, however, in terms of footprint, we use the equivalent of this dot for all our farming.”
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Steve Witkowski
Environmental Officer (Marine Scientist)
Q: How did you determine your farming footprint and work out the dot in the graphic?
A: All of Tassal’s combined active lease space is 955.5 hectares. Tasmania’s total land area is almost seven million hectares, therefore our footprint is 0.014027% of the total land.
If you take Tasmania’s marine areas into account, Tasmania’s land and water area adds up to over nine million hectares. Therefore, our footprint then equals 0.010561% of the total land and water area.
Tasmania’s total land area equals 6, 811, 900 hectacres
Tasmania’s total land and water area is over nine million hectacres
As a result, the footprint of all our active leases equals 0.010561%
Q: How many people do you employ across the state and Australia-wide?
A: The headcount for the month of May 2018, found Tassal directly employs 1259 people Australia-wide, with 935 of our employees in Tasmania, resulting in some of the highest employment numbers in the state for a non-government business.
Did you know?
Our industry has a unique multiplier effect, which means for every one salmon job – there are five other jobs generated, supporting a further 10,000 jobs!
Our people are diverse!
We have career opportunities across a diverse range of skill sets! Some of these include marine operations (freshwater and saltwater), legal, human resources, sales, communications and stakeholder engagement, quality, processing, accounts and finance, work health & safety, environment and sustainability, payroll, maintenance, purchasing, retail, hospitality, research & development and marketing.
About Steve
Environmental Officer (Marine Scientist)
Steve originates from Melbourne, where he completed a Bachelor of Science (majoring in Marine Biology) at the University of Melbourne in 2014.
He then ventured to Tasmania to undertake a Bachelor of Applied Science (Marine Environment) with Honours from the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) graduating in 2016.
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Visit: www.tassalgroup.com.au
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Steve worked at IMAS before joining Tassal in our Fish Health Department, before progressing to our Environment team.
