Site Details: Ardintoul
Glenshiel
Kyle, Ross-shire
IV40 8HT
Water type: Seawater
Cumulative mortality over full production cycle
Production cycle end date: Aug 2018
Total losses: 26 %
Production cycle end date: Jun 2020
Total losses: 27 %
Production cycle end date: Jun 2022
Total losses: 27.1 %
Production cycle end date: Jun 2024
Total losses: 34.1 %
Fish Health Inspectorate mortality
03/01/22-09/01/22
69,704
8.74%
10/01/22-16/01/22
20,202
2.78%
17/01/22-23/01/22
8,857
1.29%
24/01/22-30/01/22
13,441
2.01%
31/01/22-06/02/22
8,934
1.36%
28/03/22-03/04/22
8,158
1.30%
11/04/22-17/04/22
6,981
1.13%
23/05/22-29/05/22
6,428
1.56%
18/09/23-24/09/23
13,360
1.36%
06/11/23-12/11/23
25,589
2.70%
13/11/23-19/11/23
14,683
1.59%
20/11/23-26/11/23
48,095
5.30%
27/11/23-03/12/23
34,903
4.06%
04/12/23-10/12/23
17,351
2.63%
11/12/23-17/12/23
7,721
1.20%
27/05/24-02/06/24
3,879
1.15%
03/06/24-09/06/24
3,948
1.97%
10/06/24-16/06/24
2,670
1.75%
17/06/24-23/06/24
1,996
2.01%
Inspection reports
Case Number: 2020-0031
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Mortality report received from business on 24/04/2020. w/b 13/04/2020 - 5215 (1.03%) attributed to CMS and physical damage from recent sealice treatment (Thermolicer), majority attributed to CMS.
FHI contacted business for further information and to conduct a PSI.
A previous mortality event was reported by the business: w/b 30/03/2020 - 5625 (1.08%) attributed to CMS and physical damage from recent sea lice treatment.
Additional weeks checked for mortality during inspection: w/b 06/04/2020 - 4796 (0.9%), w/b 20/04/2020 - 5532 (1.1%) - both weeks mortality attributed to CMS.
Sea lice have been kept below reporting levels since week 14 2020, following average adult female lice numbers being above
2 from week 8 2020. These were reported to FHI, numbers reduced following a combination of mechanical and medicinal treatments. Average adult female lice numbers currently at 0.7
Site is currently harvesting out pens worst affected by CMS, pen 6 to be empty by 03/05/2020 and pen 11 to be empty by
10/05/2020.
PSI case conducted as unable to visit site due to COVID-19 situation. [Original PDF]
Case Number: 2021-0273
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Fish came onto site on 17/02/2021 from Lochailort hatchery (FS1269) and Loch Lochy (FS0150).
Fish are double stocked so will begin moving to Loch Alsh on Friday 30th July.
3 Slice treatments have been conducted since fish arrived on site, one in March, one in May and the most recent one in July.
Last treatment was completed on 16/07.
Florfenicol treatment conducted in March for Pseudomonas infection in Lumpfish.
Lumpfish were stocked at 12%. Mortality across the site since their input on 09/02 was 22.3% (48,499)
Salmon mortality across the site since input has been very low (2% since input).
Lep numbers have remained low since input and site manager attributes this to the presence and effectivess of the lumpfish on site. Caligus numbers increased to >1, <2 towards the end of June. Slice treatment completed in July and numbers reduced <1.
Fish were sitting deep in the water and were difficult to observe, although they appeared to be shoaling well. No moribunds or mortalities were observed on this site during the inspection.
Fish sampled for VMD appeared healthy. [Original PDF]
Case Number: 2022-0001
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Increased mortalities reported weekly since w/b 6/12/21 due to SRS and complex gill disease.
Yesterday trial peroxide treatment of 2 pens, this has caused increased mortality in the treated pens so have put off treating the remaining pens for now.
Vet report says mortality is driven by gill issues (complex gill disease) not bacterial infection. PGD, AGD, anaemia, environmental gill insult.
Looking at different treatment options like freshwater. However gills are damaged and any handling is likely to increase mortalities. Discussion on-going as to how to manage the situation.
Some sort of environmental damage possibly jellyfish or plankton bloom at some point. Gills damaged PGD in
September/October, then issues with AGD which were thought to be improving until situation started to deteriorate again in
December with complex gill disease causing large level of mortality (all reported). Water temperature still fairly high for the time of year around 9C.
SAL Stofinfiskur stock. WRS imported from Ireland. LUM from Anglesey. [Original PDF]
Case Number: 2022-0019
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Remote inspection on 02/02/22 by , observed by and .
SAL Stofnfiskur stock from Lochailort hatchery. WRS all wild sourced from Ireland, England and Scotland. LUM (farmed) from
Anglesey (Ocean Matters).
Increased mortalities reported weekly since December 2021 due to SRS and complex gill disease. SRS treated with antibiotic and no longer detected. Complex gill issues persist, although mortalities are decreasing.
H2O2 - 05/01/2022 partially treated site (2 pens) then encountered high mortalities and stopped treating site.
Sea lice treatments carried out are site specific, not in conjunction with other farms in the FMS.
Site inspection carried out on 08/02/2022 by , observed by . VMD sampling done by , observed by .
The main fish population was feeding deep in the water column and 3 moribunds in total were observed. These were brought into the lab for examination but no clinical signs were observed. The fish sampled for the VMD looked healthy both externally and internally. [Original PDF]
Case Number: 2023-0318
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Wrasse are wildcaught from around Gairloch, Loch Ailort, Mull and Uig and lumpfish were transferred from Ocean Matters
(Anglesey).
Cleaner fish mortality since input - wrasse 25,185 (17%) and lumpfish 10,716 (6.9%).
Salmon came on from loch ailort at the beginning of 2023 and are reported to be performing well so far. Micro jellyfish were present in the water from June until last week so feeding was reduced to avoid interaction. Feeding increased again once volume of jellies had reduced.
Lep and Caligus numbers very low since last inspection. Calagus beginning to increase so site has an Alphamax treatment planned for wk29 followed by a prophylactic Slice treatment.
Live haul harvests are taken to Mallaig.
Deltafav treatment (Alphamax) was completed on Monday 17th and site manager reported a 90% clearance in calagus from the fish following an increase over the weekend. A slice treatment had begun on the day of inspection.
No moribunds were observed on the site and fish appeared in good physical health and were active in the cages. Fish sampled for VMD also appeared in good condition externally and internally upon examination and demonstrated a strong feed [Original PDF]