Site Details: Ardifuir

c/o Kames Fish Farming Ltd
Kilmelford
By Oban, Argyll
PA34 4XA
Operator: Mowi Scotland Ltd
Water type: Seawater

Average female lice per fish

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Fish Health Inspectorate mortality

Date:
29/08/22-04/09/22
Mortality:
3,137
Mortality Rate:
1.33%
Reason given: Environmental Gill Damage
Environmental Gill Damage
Feeding rate reduced and additional health monitoring plan in place.
FHI to monitor. Inspector in area WK 41 and inspection scheduled for 11/10/22
Date:
05/09/22-11/09/22
Mortality:
3,838
Mortality Rate:
1.64%
Reason given: Environmental Gill Damage
Environmental Gill Damage
Feeding rate reduced and additional health monitoring plan in place.
FHI to monitor. Inspector in area WK 41 and inspection scheduled for 11/10/22
Date:
12/09/22-18/09/22
Mortality:
5,476
Mortality Rate:
2.38%
Reason given: Environmental gill damage
Environmental gill damage
Feeding rate reduced and additional health monitoring plan in place.
FHI to monitor, site will be visited wk41 routine insp due.
Date:
19/09/22-25/09/22
Mortality:
4,000
Mortality Rate:
1.78%
Reason given: Environmental gill damage
Environmental gill damage
Feeding rate reduced and additional health monitoring plan in place.
FHI to monitor. Inspector in area WK 41.
Date:
26/09/22-02/10/22
Mortality:
Mortality Rate:
1.86%
Reason given: Environmental gill damage
Environmental gill damage
Feeding rate reduced and additional health monitoring plan in place.
Mortality improved in week 41. FHI to monitor.
Date:
03/10/22-09/10/22
Mortality:
Mortality Rate:
1.52%
Reason given: Environmental gill damage
Environmental gill damage
Feeding rate reduced and additional health monitoring plan in place.
Week 41 mortality reduced to 0.64%. FHI to monitor.
Date:
17/10/22-23/10/22
Mortality:
Mortality Rate:
1.42%
Reason given: Environmental gill damage
Environmental gill damage
Mortality reducing
FHI to visit wk 45
Date:
28/11/22-04/12/22
Mortality:
Mortality Rate:
1.26%
Reason given: Treatment
Treatment
Salmosan bath treatments carried out. Raised mortality caused by fish with compromised gills reacting badly to the treatment. Mort levels below threshold in week 49
FHI visited site 7/11/22. FHI to monitor.
Date:
09/09/24-15/09/24
Mortality:
2,447
Mortality Rate:
1.23%
Reason given:
No information
Enviromental challenge. Fish health manager has been on site and a feed strategy has been agreed.
Business contacted for further info. Fish and water samples sent away for analysis. Suspected water quality issue, either algae or micro jellyfish. Mortalities have reduced and should be below threshold the following week. FHI to monitor. Updated 03/09/2025 - 'No information' added to unexplained observations.
Date:
30/09/24-06/10/24
Mortality:
2,181
Mortality Rate:
1.13%
Reason given: Enviromental gill challenge
Enviromental gill challenge
Histology results confirm gill damage due to environmental conditions. Reduced feeding has helped.
FHI to monitor.
Date:
07/10/24-13/10/24
Mortality:
2,257
Mortality Rate:
1.19%
Reason given: Enviromental gill challenge
Enviromental gill challenge
Reduced feeding.
FHI to monitor.
Date:
14/10/24-20/10/24
Mortality:
1,896
Mortality Rate:
1.01%
Reason given: Enviromental gill challenge
Enviromental gill challenge
Reduced feed rations
FHI to monitor.
Date:
28/10/24-03/11/24
Mortality:
1,884
Mortality Rate:
1.02%
Reason given: Enviromental gill challenge
Enviromental gill challenge
All cages back on to there feed increasing slowly.
FHI to monitor.
Date:
18/11/24-24/11/24
Mortality:
2,685
Mortality Rate:
1.51%
Reason given: Enviromental gill challenge
Enviromental gill challenge
Enviromental challenge. Fish health manager has been on site and a feed strategy has been agreed mortalities are coming down.
FHI to monitor.
Date:
25/11/24-01/12/24
Mortality:
2,645
Mortality Rate:
1.58%
Reason given: Thermolicer post mortality gill health
Thermolicer post mortality gill health
Foover removing mortality
FHI to monitor.
Date:
02/12/24-08/12/24
Mortality:
3,081
Mortality Rate:
1.91%
Reason given: Enviromental gill challenge
Enviromental gill challenge
Foover removing mortality post thermolice treatment.
FHI to monitor

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Inspection reports

Case Number: 2022-0542


Download Poor gill health attributed to micro jellyfish- gill health improving.
Slice treatments carried out in August and this week (31/10/22). They have plans for salmosan tarp treatments, but the last two days the sea has been too rough to safely treat and they are standing by for a good weather gap
Site thermometer used for biosecurity reasons
Sea lice average adult female wk40 1.17; wk41 1.69, wk42 1.75, wk43 2.14
From health reports; primary cause of gill health challenge during this period starting August, and continues to be present today albeit in much lower concentrations. The main species identified is Muggeia atlantica, a hydrozoan species.
Dundas and Barkip for mort disposal final destination.
Mort level week 44 lower - 0.44% as divers were unavailable to work on site due to covid issues. Week 45 will be up over reporting as divers will be back on site but general gill health improved in larger fish but population of poor doers continues be cause increased mort levels.
Lethargic poor doers observed in pens but not moribund, Some dead fish observed in pens. Are all removed daily but had appeared in afternoon as divers not available to remove dead fish that have not ended up in the dead baskets.
Planned tarp salmosan treatment week 14/11/22 - 5 cages to do. Not being done this week due strong tides.
All processing done at Loch Duart in Dingwall - recorded in Harvest schedule reports. Destination not specified but all fish go to Dingwall and going forward will record destination. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2025-0027


Download Mortality: increased mortality at the end of 2024 due to gill issues caused by environmental challenge.
Sealice: Elevated level at the end of 2022 treated with salmosan which reduced lice dramatically (2.7 to 0.2 adult female
Lep./fish). Current cycle of fish have had lower lice levels with a thermolicer treament used in November 2024 to bring slightly higher lice numbers back down.
All harvesting from the site is deadhaul.
Health Surveillance: Most recent report (22/01/2025) seen - some kidney samples tested positive for Tenacibaculum species.
No positive results for other pathogens such as furunculosis or piscirickettsia.
During the physical inspection of the site, 5 moribund fish were observed across the whole site. Harvesting was taking place from one pen and a fish was taken for VMD sampling from this pen. The fish taken for sampling appeared healthy both externally and internally. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2025-0208


Download Treatments - Routine tricane sedation for lice counts and 15/02/2025 they had a thermolicer treatment
Site has been fallow since 4th March 2025.
Mowi were the ones to initially install the site and as Kames does not own the site they do not have any paperwork relating to the initial buying of moorings. Kames have a mooring grid diagram. Mowi has been contacted and they do not have documentation relating to the moorings as the person who dealt with the moorings has left and Mowi do not have any documentation relating to
Ardifuir moorings on file.
An escape and enhanced containment inspection was scheduled for this site after the Argyll Fisheries Trust alerted the FHI on 19th March of two Rainbow trout caught on the River Add. By the time of the inspection a further 11 Rainbow trout had been caught.
Update (10/12/2025) - Due to movements off site to neighbouring site North Moine, final numbers would only be known once harvest was complete at North Moine. Company have provided harvest and mortality figures for both sites.
Update (21/05/2026) - CNA report sent and recommendations advised. Deadline 29th June 2026.
Update (28/05/2026) - Business have provided documents which satisfy the recommendations made. [Original PDF]

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