A Canterbury aquaculture company that illegally supplied hundreds of thousands of live green-lipped mussels from a restricted area to an exporter has been fined $24,000. Aroma Aquaculture Ltd was sentenced in the Christchurch District Court on Wednesday on one representative charge under the Biosecurity Act, following a successful prosecution by the Ministry for Primary Industries. "This company supplied 27 consignments totalling about 259,000kg of live green-lipped mussels to the licenced fish receiver and exporter Ikana New Zealand Limited. The movement of the shellfish was in breach of movement controls in place to prevent the spread of Bonamia ostreae," says Aleshea Allen, ministry acting director of investigations and compliance support. Ikana New Zealand Ltd did not have a permit to receive the shellfish and was fined $30,000 in March for its part in the offending .…