Site Details: Lismore West

Port Nan Ladaig
Lismore
Lochlinnhe
PA34 5UL
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

Lismore West (B) Production cycle end date: Mar 2019
Total losses: 6.9 %

Lismore West (B) Production cycle end date: Mar 2021
Total losses: 17.7 %

Lismore West (B) Production cycle end date: Jun 2023
Total losses: 39.3 %

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Fish Health Inspectorate mortality

Date:
21/11/22-27/11/22
Mortality:
11,084
Mortality Rate:
2.20%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD; past AGD tarp treatment with peroxide
Zoo plankton challenge had occurred but not to same extent as other sites nearby causing gill issues, mortalities recorded are mainly post treatment, mortaliites should reduce the following week. First notification this cycle. FHI to monitor.
Date:
28/11/22-04/12/22
Mortality:
6,239
Mortality Rate:
1.20%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD; post AGD tarp treatment with peroxide
Mortality levels have fallen on previous weeks figure. FHI to monitor.
Date:
05/12/22-11/12/22
Mortality:
15,008
Mortality Rate:
3.00%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD; post AGD tarp treatment with peroxide
Mortality levels remain increased. FHI to monitor. Visit early 2023 if issues continue.
Date:
12/12/22-18/12/22
Mortality:
11,794
Mortality Rate:
2.50%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD; post AGD tarp treatment with peroxide
Mortality levels remain increased. FHI to monitor. Visit early 2023 if issues continue.
Date:
19/12/22-25/12/22
Mortality:
20,286
Mortality Rate:
4.30%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD; post AGD tarp treatment with peroxide
Site contacted for further information. Paramove treatment conducted in week 51. Freshwater treatment panned for week 3. FHI to monitor.
Date:
26/12/22-01/01/23
Mortality:
9,601
Mortality Rate:
2.10%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD; AGD
Site contacted for further information. Paramove treatment conducted in week 51. Fish are beginning to show signs of improvement and mortality is beginning to decrease. Freshwater treatment panned for week 3. FHI to monitor.
Date:
02/01/23-08/01/23
Mortality:
10,523
Mortality Rate:
2.40%
Reason given: Gill health Related
Gill health Related
CGD; AGD; increased FH surveilance
Business correspondent conacted for further information. AGD continuing to be the primary issue. Site conducting weekly gill swabs. FW planned for Wk4. Routine visits increased. FHI to monitor.
Date:
09/01/23-15/01/23
Mortality:
5,449
Mortality Rate:
1.30%
Reason given: Gill health related
Gill health related
CGD, AGD, increased FH surveillance
Inspector in the area w/b 6/2/23 can visit if issue persists. FHI to monitor. Update 30/01 - to visit w/c 06/02
Date:
13/02/23-19/02/23
Mortality:
5,590
Mortality Rate:
1.50%
Reason given: Gill Health related
Gill Health related
Post AGD wellboat treatment
Site visited 08/02/23. Business correspondent contacted. Handling mortality. FHI to monitor.
Date:
20/02/23-26/02/23
Mortality:
5,243
Mortality Rate:
1.90%
Reason given: Gill health Related; Bacterial disease
Gill health Related; Bacterial disease
Post AGD wellboat treatment
Site visited 08/02/23. Business correspondent contacted. Handling mortality. Mortality appears to be decreasing in week 9. FHI to monitor.
Date:
27/02/23-05/03/23
Mortality:
28,592
Mortality Rate:
8.20%
Reason given: Handling; Bacterial disease
Handling; Bacterial disease
Post AGD wellboat treatment, desocking through harvest, mortalty reducing
Site visited 8/2/23. FHI to revisit. Business contacted for further detail on bacteria detailed as reason. Update 15/3/23 - A. salmonicida with background SRS
Date:
06/03/23-12/03/23
Mortality:
6,027
Mortality Rate:
3.40%
Reason given: Handling; Bacterial disease
Handling; Bacterial disease
Post AGD wellboat treatment, mortalty reducing
Site visited 8/2/23. FHI to revisit. Business confirmed bacteria on site A. salmonicida with background SRS
Date:
13/03/23-19/03/23
Mortality:
2,468
Mortality Rate:
1.60%
Reason given: Handling; Bacterial disease
Handling; Bacterial disease
Post AGD wellboat treatment, mortalty reducing
FHI inpsected 08/0223, additional inspection scheduled.
Date:
20/03/23-26/03/23
Mortality:
1,702
Mortality Rate:
1.10%
Reason given: Handling; Bacterial disease
Handling; Bacterial disease
Mortalty reducing
FHI inspected 22/03/2023 but unable to get out to site due to weather conditions. Site revisited 30/03/23 and diagnostic samples taken. FHI to monitor.
Date:
08/05/23-14/05/23
Mortality:
1,608
Mortality Rate:
1.40%
Reason given: Gill Health; Algae & Jellyfish
Gill Health; Algae & Jellyfish
High Jelly fish, reducing into wk 20; destocking through harvest
First report this year. FHI to monitor.
Date:
15/05/23-21/05/23
Mortality:
1,487
Mortality Rate:
2.0%
Reason given: Gill Health; Bacterial disease
Gill Health; Bacterial disease
CGD; bacterial disease; harvesting to fallow
Although mortality rate increased numbers have reduced as site harvesting to fallow. FHI to monitor.
Date:
22/05/23-28/05/23
Mortality:
244
Mortality Rate:
1.40%
Reason given: Gill Health; Bacterial disease
Gill Health; Bacterial disease
Site fallow in week22
Site fallow

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Inspection reports

Case Number: 2020-0174


Download Mort event info notified by business; 16/03/2020 to 22/03/2020; 0.25kg; 3.42%; Environmental - strong tides
23/03/2020 to 29/03/2020; 0.27kg; 2.3%; Environmental - strong tides
30/03/2020 to 05/04/2020; 0.29kg; 1.6%; Environmental - strong tides
Increased mortality removal & health monitoring, mortality returned to below 1% threshold in following week
Additional site mortality levels in 2020; wk15 0.39%, wk17 0.63%, wk18 0.275%
Combination of strong tides, removal of lice shields and small fish resulted in scrubbed fish being observed on site. Had health team in but no significant secondry infections.
Treatments since input; SLICE (10/3-16/3) and (25/4 until 1/5).
Lice levels currently very low count 21/4 0.4 mobile, 0.3 juv, 0.1 caligus, 0.02 oviparous females, 0.08 females, 0 males.
PSI carried out as unable to visit site due to Covid-19 situation. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2020-0426


Download Weekly mortalities >1%:
Wk11 2020 - 1.22%
Wk12 - 3.42%
Wk13 - 2.3%
Wk14 - 1.6%
All mortalities attributed to physical damage resulting from strong tides. The mortality dropped in the following weeks and has remained below the reporting threshold since.
Average adult female lice was 0.68 in Wk20 (above the CoGP), although was below the threshold in weeks prior and since input, and below every week following until inspection.
Fish came on from Knock over two inputs.
Site will be doing live harvests, with fish going to South Shian processing plant.
Fish were sitting deep in the water so difficult to observe from the cage. Observed good shoaling behaviour and feeding response on the cameras.
Fish sampled for VMD appeared healthy. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2022-0461


Download Mort event reported 7/12/20 3.27% (7348 fish) attributed to post peroxide tarp treatment. wrasse on farm wild source, Tobermory and Orkney. Delivery yesterday from . Wrasse mortality numbers low with no issues reported.
Mort disposal; incinerated on site. No other movements off dead.
Current morts in salmon attributed to gill issues. Gill scores high currently of PGD, and increasing for AGD, 4/9 positive from last gill swabs. Plankton bloom July and early September.
Last month a fishing vessel run aground next to the site and a sheen of diesel passed over the site twice. Feeding was stopped at the time.
Week 31 until week 35 2022- furunculosis. Treated with florical. 150 degree days withdrawal except the wrasse - whole site treated. 23rd August 10 day treatment. Morts 1.50% cage 8, 1.39% cage 9 week 33 peak mortality. Lost M&S status due to use of antibiotics.
Anaesthetic used on site is Optomease benzocaine which has a withdrawal period is 7degree days when used according to prescription. Fish are not currently on withdrawal
Last sea lice count; 0.02 adult females, all stages 3.98 , average mobile 1.31
Tarp treatment alphamax 18,19 August 2022 last lice treatment. None planned currently.
Not recording person who is conducting the lice counts -will be done going forward.
Thermoliced cage two 10/8/22 as lice numbers higher that rest of site,
No site manager in place for the site and area health manager could not attend at last minute - all documentation was not available during inspection. Have requested; BMP, site specific lice management plan, FMS and health reports. Update
13.2.23 Site visit conducted 8/2/23- case 20230043 and issues resolved. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2023-0043


Download Site inspected following repeated reports of increased mortality above the reporting threshold on site from the business.
Stock details: 414741 SAL 2022 Q1 @ 2.6kg, 9/9 facilities stocked. 17398 WRS @ MVG, stocked in 9 of the pens, input on site in October 2023.
The increased mortality on site has been attributed to primarily complex gill health issues with AGD as the primary cause.
Furunculosis was also identified on site. Most recent health surveillance on 24/01/2023 validated that CGD and AGD were primary causes, and negative results were found for furunculosis, SRS, Moritella and PD. Gill swabs have been routinely taken and the site will due to finish screening the site fully again in 2 weeks.
During the site inspection, only 1 dead fish was observed, no moribunds or lethargic fish were seen. Any wrasse observed were observed to be in a healthy, good condition. Only three pens (identified as those that mortality was highest in) were inspected due to weather not permitting access to other pens. Temperature taken on 08/02/2023 was 8.25C.
Mortality, treatment, sea lice, FMS and biosecurity records were inspected. The FMS, sea lice records and biosecurity records were inspected as these were outstanding in case 2022-0461. These have been found to be adequate and have been reported on as per the case 2022-0461. Last florocol treatment for furunculosis was prescribed 21/08/2022- 01/09/2022 (all pens). Prescriptions were inspected. FW treatment was scheduled for the 09/02/2023; limited to 3 hour treatment on the well boat to allow best survival of wrasse on site. Wrasse are also creeled out prior to any treatment. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2023-0114


Download Site was due to be inspected following increased reports of morality on site, attributed to handling/treatment event (3 hourFW treatment). Following the treatment, increase in mortality on site observed . Increased handling exacerbated mortalities and attributed to PMCV and PRV detected in recent health reports. Tenacibaculum, Moritella, SRS and Pastuerella skyensis and
Aeromonas salmonicida are noted as background issues (health reports 03/03/2023 negative for all).
Records inspected: mortality records (salmon and wrasse), health reports and movement records, risk assessment for fish transfer.
Pens 1,3, 4,6 still on site following harvest of four pens and movement/transfer of pen 5.
Wrasse mortality (reason noted as black losses and treatment losses):
Wk6 - 1117, 6.21%
Wk7 - 2341, 13.89%
Wk8 - 286, 2.19%
Wk9 - 17, 0.13%
Wk10 - 5, 51%
Wk11 - 51, 0.81%
Planned diagnostic and site inspection not conducted due to the weather conditions being deemed as unsafe. The sampling and visit will be rescheduled for potentially w/b 27/03/2023. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2023-0126


Download Freshwater treatment started all the issues. Mortality has been declining week on week.
Histopathology health report dated 03/03/2023 detected microcolonies of bacteria - suspected Aeromonas septicaemia
(Furunculosis) on site.
Fergusons to Barkip
Salmon mortality this week (Wk 13) so far 0.42% - 614 fish (only 3 days in).
Wrasse mortality - Wk 12: 0.70% (44 fish), Wk 11: 0.81% (51 fish), Wk 10: 0.06% (5 fish), Wk 9: 0.13% (17 fish)
Freshwater - 11th feb - 16th Feb
Optomease 7 day withdrawl period
Follow up inspection - see case 20230114 for additional information.
Paper work completed by , supervised by . Sampling of F1-F4 by supervised by , Sampling of F5 by observed by . [Original PDF]

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