Site Details: Lippie Geo

North House
Taing Burra Isle
Shetland
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Operator: Scottish Sea Farms Ltd
Water type: Seawater

Average female lice per fish

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Salmon Scotland mortality

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Cumulative mortality over full production cycle

Lippie Geo Production cycle end date: Jul 2021
Total losses: 25 %

Lippie Geo Production cycle end date: Jul 2023
Total losses: 22 %

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Fish Health Inspectorate mortality

Date:
06/02/23-12/02/23
Mortality:
2,273
Mortality Rate:
1.10%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD
First report this cycle. FHI to monitor.
Date:
13/02/23-19/02/23
Mortality:
2,806
Mortality Rate:
1.40%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD
Business correspondent contacted. Mortality below threshold in week 8. FHI to monitor.
Date:
08/05/23-14/05/23
Mortality:
3,253
Mortality Rate:
2.00%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS
First report this year. FHI to monitor.
Date:
15/05/23-21/05/23
Mortality:
2,329
Mortality Rate:
1.6%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS
Morts reducing, continue to monitor.
Date:
22/05/23-28/05/23
Mortality:
3,386
Mortality Rate:
2.40%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS, CGD; FW wellboat treatment scheduled
A wellboat treatment using freshwater is scheduled to reduce the complex gil issues currently experienced on site. FHI to monitor
Date:
29/05/23-04/06/23
Mortality:
2,345
Mortality Rate:
1.7%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS, CGD; FW wellboat treatment
Mortality numbers are reducing from previous week, however mortalities have been above threshold for four weeks, FHI to monitor
Date:
05/06/23-11/06/23
Mortality:
3,425
Mortality Rate:
3.30%
Reason given: Virus disease; Gill health
Virus disease; Gill health
CMS, CGD; FW wellboat treatment
Mortality has increased from previous week. Fifth week over threshold. Business correspondent has been contacted for further information - awaiting response. FHI to monitor.
Date:
26/06/23-02/07/23
Mortality:
2,486
Mortality Rate:
2.5%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest; Business contacted: Site planned fallow 2023wk28.
Business contacted for additional information. FHI to monitor.
Date:
03/07/23-09/07/23
Mortality:
3,917
Mortality Rate:
4.00%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Harvesting to fallow. Site contacted for further information, mortality is mainly CMS driven. Site to fallow by 20/07/23.
FHI to monitor.
Date:
10/07/23-16/07/23
Mortality:
2,529
Mortality Rate:
2.7%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Harvesting to fallow; Site plans to be fallow by 20/07/2023.
Business correspondent contacted for further information. FHI to monitor.
Date:
17/07/23-23/07/23
Mortality:
1,177
Mortality Rate:
5.3%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Site fallow in wk 30
Site now fallow

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Inspection reports

Case Number: 2020-0381


Download Sealice treatment aboard well boat (Ronja Superior, 22/06/2020) Azasure, whole site treated but only cage 6 had increased mortality attributed to this. Fish were held for 3.5 hours. 13,699 atttributed purely to treatment in cage 6. Fish did not react well to treatment, maybe due to stressful sweep and CO2 levels was slightly higher in well reportedly caused by worsening weather conditions. Fish in well appeared blue and stressed on discharge. Mortality was increased in 3 days post treatment then returned to background level. Fish health manager took samples and tested for CMS and HSMI, both results came back as negative.
Cages 1 and 4 treated with Azasure in fully enclosed tarpaulins and cage 5 treated with Azasure on well boat. Lice treatments only undertaken on these cages as adult female lice numbers were not so high on others cages
New thermolicer to arrive at start of new year. It will operate all around Scotland.
Some caligus on site but very few Leps.
Slice treatments synchronised with other site in the area. Bath treatments not synchronised
Treatment intiated on individual cages once the lice count hits average of 0.01 adults females per fish.
Currently no AMA in place as regional manager recently left and there was no body to conduct meetings between the two companies. In the meantime Greig and SSF have written up FMS's and are willingly sharing those between each other. Once new regional manager starts a new AMA will be drawn up. Reportedly, sealice data currently shared with Grieg on a weekly basis.
10-15 metre lice skirts on at moment. Reportedly more effective at reducing lep numbers than caligus.
Remote inspection carried out by on 11/09/2020 via Microsoft Teams
Site inspection and sampling by
No issues noted on site, fish shoaling well and fish sampled for VMD appeared healthy.
Site reported that plankton levels have been lower so far this year and gill health has been good so far. Smolts reportedly came in from Barcaldine ~200g.
SSF have implemented a very low trigger level for sea lice, 0.01, 100 fish counted per cage per week, trigger is 1 adult female for a cage. Treatments are targetted to specific cages that reach the treatment level. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2022-0296


Download Remote inspection and physical site inspection conducted by , supervised by .
The site was recently stocked with fish transferred from Holmes Geo, very little mortality has occurred since input and the fish appear to be doing well. All epidemiological units were inspected onsite with no clinical signs of disease observed. Fish appear to be in good health, shoaling well and were observed responding positively to feed.
Animal health survalleince conducted by the companies fish health biologist, last carried out on 01/08/2022. The health of the stock was reported as being healthy with no significant health issues noted. High numbers of phytoplankton were detected from samples taken during the sites health surveillance.
The site was stocked with wild caught ballan wrasse at an approximate stocking of 3%, no mortalities have been reported since input.
9 VMD samples collected by . [Original PDF]

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