Site Details: Quarry Point

Crarae
Furnace
Argyll
PA32 8YA
Operator: Bakkafrost Scotland
Water type: Seawater

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Average female lice per fish

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Salmon Scotland mortality

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Cumulative mortality over full production cycle

Quarry Point Production cycle end date: May 2019
Total losses: 24.7 %

Quarry Point Production cycle end date: Apr 2021
Total losses: 4.2 %

Quarry Point Production cycle end date: Apr 2023
Total losses: 15.1 %

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Fish Health Inspectorate mortality

Date:
18/07/22-24/07/22
Mortality:
3,712
Mortality Rate:
1.24%
Reason given: Gill Health Related; Viral Disease (PD)
Gill Health Related; Viral Disease (PD)
Freshwater wk 30
Mortality rate increased wk 30. Site inspected 07/06/2022. FHI to monitor
Date:
25/07/22-31/07/22
Mortality:
7,317
Mortality Rate:
2.48%
Reason given: Gill Health Related; Viral Disease (PD)
Gill Health Related; Viral Disease (PD)
Freshwater wk 30
Business correspondent contacted. Site conducted FW treatment in Wk 30. FHI to monitor.
Date:
08/08/22-14/08/22
Mortality:
3,249
Mortality Rate:
1.14%
Reason given: Gill Health Related (Post-Freshwater treatment)
Gill Health Related (Post-Freshwater treatment)
Targeted harvests
Post treatment mortalities, rate is just above the reporting level. FHI to monitor.
Date:
15/08/22-21/08/22
Mortality:
6,495
Mortality Rate:
2.12%
Reason given: Gill-health Related; Viral Disease (PD)
Gill-health Related; Viral Disease (PD)
Targeted harvests
Gill health issues reported as a result of enviromental insult, fish have responded well to treatment in recent weeks. Targeted harvesting for PD, worst affected pens have been harvested out. Mortality has significantly decreased W/b 22/08/22. FHI to monitor.
Date:
22/08/22-28/08/22
Mortality:
3,898
Mortality Rate:
1.48%
Reason given: Gill Health Reated, Viral Disease (PD)
Gill Health Reated, Viral Disease (PD)
Targeted Harvests
Mortaliy levels down on previous week but remain above reporting threshold. FHI to monitor.
Date:
29/08/22-04/09/22
Mortality:
4,436
Mortality Rate:
2.04%
Reason given: Gill Health Related, Viral Disease (PD)
Gill Health Related, Viral Disease (PD)
Targeted Harvests
FHI to monitor. FHI scheduled to be in area WK 41
Date:
05/09/22-11/09/22
Mortality:
4,909
Mortality Rate:
2.7%
Reason given: Gill Health Related, Viral Disease (PD)
Gill Health Related, Viral Disease (PD)
FW Scheduled wk 38/39; Targeted Harvests
FHI to monitor. FHI scheduled to be in area WK 41
Date:
12/09/22-18/09/22
Mortality:
2,871
Mortality Rate:
1.62%
Reason given: Gill Health Related, Viral Disease (PD)
Gill Health Related, Viral Disease (PD)
Harvests
Mortality levels reducing. FHI to monitor. FHI in area wk41
Date:
19/09/22-25/09/22
Mortality:
3,861
Mortality Rate:
2.90%
Reason given: Gill Health Related; Handling (Post-treatment)
Gill Health Related; Handling (Post-treatment)
Harvests; FW week 39
FHI to monitor. Inspector scheduled to be in area wk 41.
Date:
26/09/22-02/10/22
Mortality:
3,059
Mortality Rate:
2.77%
Reason given: Gill Health Related; Handling (Post-treatment)
Gill Health Related; Handling (Post-treatment)
Harvests; FW week 39
Slight decrease in mortality levels from previous week. FHI to monitor
Date:
12/12/22-18/12/22
Mortality:
1,846
Mortality Rate:
1.05%
Reason given: Gill health, maturity
Gill health, maturity
Mortality continuing to drop each week. FHI to monitor
Date:
26/12/22-01/01/23
Mortality:
2,042
Mortality Rate:
1.18%
Reason given: Gill Health, Maturity
Gill Health, Maturity
Monitor, targetted harvests
Targetted harvesting has commenced. FHI to monitor.
Date:
02/01/23-08/01/23
Mortality:
2,001
Mortality Rate:
1.17%
Reason given: Maturity
Maturity
Monitor
Second consecutive week report. Mortality level slightly down from previous week. Business correspondent confirmed Grisle as the main cause, the site is conducting proactive moribund removal and targeted harvests to manage the issue. Inspectors planned to visit the area in second half of February, so visit can be arranged if issue persists. FHI to monitor .
Date:
16/01/23-22/01/23
Mortality:
1,706
Mortality Rate:
1.02%
Reason given: Sea Lice Related (post-mechanical treatment)
Sea Lice Related (post-mechanical treatment)
Post treatment mortality from a recent hydrolicer treatment. Site is planning to treat with FW in week 7. The site is planning to start harvesting. FHI to monitor.

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Inspection reports

Case Number: 2020-0021


Download Bad weather on-site, very poor visibility.
No mortality events reported this cycle. Last cycle two events - WB 22/04/2019 and WB 29/04/2019. 33.31% (52,887) and
32.26% (25,172) resp. There were reported to the FHI and the site was fallowed shortly after.
19s0 Landcatch
19s1 Fanad
Some seal activity between December and January, 820 Dec, 2200 mortalities, some of which were attributed to seal predation.
High lumpfish mortality in pen 3. 25% over 30 days these will be replaced by Otterferry. Health checks are being carried out, although no results as of yet. Only gross pathology observed is a pale liver.
Slice treatment - Dec 19 - Prophylactic
Farm has stocked 2019 S1 fish from Sgian Dubh, as well as 2019 S0 fish.
Site is not farmed on a single yearclass basis. A risk assessment is in place and the farm management statement has been upd
Thermometer left on previous inspection, site thermometer used instead.
Accompanied by and UKAS auditors [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2022-0181


Download For this new cycle, site is trialling the introduction of wrasse before salmon are input onto site. Wild caught wrasse were introduced onto site on 09/08/2021, with the first salmon input occurring on 27/08/2022.
Fish are harvested via live haul and taken to Ardyne and the onto Cairndow for processing. First harvest at quarry point will begin in July 2022.
Seal pro netting were introduced onto site at the start of the cycle. Hardly predation seen since. In addition, aeration is constantly switched on site due to the loch having a history of severe algal blooms.
Lumpfish Mortality (most mortality of lumpfish is either culled due to end of cycle or black losses):
2020: WK6, 1439, 21.18%
Wk7, 2176, 40.63%
Wk8, 1568, 49.31%
Wk50, 1710, 10.37%
2021: Wk2,1424, 10.11%
Wk4, 2723, 21.78%
Wk7,1849,20.45%
Wk8, 6192, 86.10%
Wk10, 127, 12.70%
Wk11, 611, 69.9%
Wk12, 262, 10.0%
2022: Wk14, 1472, 16.17%
Wk15, 1054, 13.81%
Wrasse mortality: 2022- Wk14, 1071, 8.94%
Wk15, 420, 3.85%
Remote paperwork inspection conducted by and supervised by on 01/06/2022.
Site inspection conducted on 07/06/2022 by and supervised by . VMD samples were taken and all fish were found to be healthy. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2024-0015


Download Salmon peaks in mortality 2022: wk 29 3712 (1.24%) wk 30 7317 (2.48%), wk 32 3259 (1.14%), wk 33 6495 (2.12%), wk 34
3898 (1.48%), wk 35 4436 (2.04%), wk 36 4909 (2.7%), wk 37 2871 (1.62%), wk 38 (3891 (2.9%), wk 39 3059 (2.77%), main cause of these is PD but also some without specific diagnosis and post treatments. Wk 50 1846 (1.05%), wk 52 2042 (1.18%) without diagnosis and grilse the main attributed cause but some treatment losses as well.
Salmon peaks in mortality 2023: wk 01 2001 (1.17%), wk 03 1706 (1.02%) continuation of losses occurring in December 2022

Lumpsucker peaks in mortality 2022 wk 33 645 (14.6%), wk 34 534 (14.49%), wk 35 767 (24.34%), wk 36 250 (10.49%), wk
37 428 (20.06%), wk 38 (609 (35.57%), wk 39 (54.87%) mainly recorded as black losses but also some harvest culls.
Wrasse peaks in mortality 2022: wk 33 1825 (18.21%), wk34 1164 (14.2%), wk 35 1772 (25.19%), wk 36 805 (15.3%), wk 37
948 (21.27%), wk 38 1148 (32.27%), wk 39 1159 (48.07%) mainly recorded as black losses but also some harvest culls.
Records not maintained for cleaner fish movements offsite in the movement book, but records were available for harvests. [Original PDF]

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