Site Details: West of Burwick

Gremista
Lerwick
ZE1 0PX
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

West of Burwick Production cycle end date: Sep 2019
Total losses: 35.8 %

West of Burwick Production cycle end date: Jun 2021
Total losses: 13.9 %

West of Burwick Production cycle end date: Aug 2023
Total losses: 37.1 %

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Fish Health Inspectorate mortality

Date:
24/10/22-30/10/22
Mortality:
2,440
Mortality Rate:
1.10%
Reason given: Gill Health Related
Gill Health Related
CGD; post FW wellboat treatment
Site contacted for further information. Post treatment mortality following a FW treatment which was conducted during a transfer from North Papa to West of Burwick on 25/10/2022. FHI to monitor.
Date:
13/02/23-19/02/23
Mortality:
3,787
Mortality Rate:
1.10%
Reason given: Gill Health related
Gill Health related
CGD
Business correspondent contacted. Mortality appears to be below threshold in week 8. FHI to monitor.
Date:
06/03/23-12/03/23
Mortality:
3,774
Mortality Rate:
1.20%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; destocking through harvest
FHI to monitor
Date:
22/05/23-28/05/23
Mortality:
2,470
Mortality Rate:
1.10%
Reason given: Gill Health Related; Virus disease
Gill Health Related; Virus disease
CGD, CMS; Destocking through harvest
Site is currently reducing stock numbers on site via harvesting. FHI to monitor
Date:
26/06/23-02/07/23
Mortality:
2,654
Mortality Rate:
1.7%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest; Business contacted: Site planned fallow August/September 2023.
Business contacted for additional information. FHI to monitor.
Date:
03/07/23-09/07/23
Mortality:
6,948
Mortality Rate:
4.50%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest
Site contacted for further information, FHI to monitor.
Date:
17/07/23-23/07/23
Mortality:
4,132
Mortality Rate:
2.9%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest
Business contacted for additional information. FHI to monitor.
Date:
24/07/23-30/07/23
Mortality:
6,157
Mortality Rate:
4.40%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest; business contacted - possible fallow by End of August
FHI to monitor.
Date:
31/07/23-06/08/23
Mortality:
8,579
Mortality Rate:
6.40%
Reason given: Virus disease
Virus disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest
FHI to monitor - Site due to fallow by end of August
Date:
07/08/23-13/08/23
Mortality:
5,433
Mortality Rate:
4.30%
Reason given: Virus Disease
Virus Disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest
FHI to monitor - Site due to fallow by end of week 34
Date:
14/08/23-20/08/23
Mortality:
5,420
Mortality Rate:
5.60%
Reason given: Virus Disease
Virus Disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest
Site due to fallow end of August. FHI to monitor.
Date:
21/08/23-27/08/23
Mortality:
1,160
Mortality Rate:
1.70%
Reason given: Virus Disease
Virus Disease
CMS; Destocking through harvest
Site fallow.

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Inspection reports

Case Number: 2020-0338


Download Mortalities have been very low throughout cycle since stocking. Monitored daily by camera.
Sea lice counts very low. Sea lice skirts were in place prior to stocking and just recently removed. Two slice treatments administered one in April and one in July - July treatment due to slight rise in Caligus numbers observed. A wellboat bath treatment with salmosan also conducted for gill health and sea lice, a few leps observed and caligus. 100% clearance after treatment and improvement in gill health. Company generally favour freshwater for sea lice treatments, however other methods are available - chemotherapeutants and optilicer. Details of decision making process for choosing intervention not written into sea lice management plan - to look further into this.
Predator nets and top nets in place - no predator issues.
All records except movement records inspected by remotely.
Site inspection and sampling by
Fish sampled for VMD appeared healthy, site manager reported that gill health had imporved on previous so far. Fish reportedly growing well. FW treatments have been working well and site have been conducting these at lower stocking densities. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2022-0568


Download Last transfer of fish onto site was on 13/11/2022 from Setter Voe.
Half of site is stocked from Setter Voe and the other half from Migdale.
Only a couple or moribunds across whole site.
Mortalities are usually ensiled on site. Small, amounts picked up by SEM, larger mortalities are handled by Pelagia.
Site inspection and paperwork conducted by , supervised by . VMD samples taken by [Original PDF]

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