Site Details: Eughlam

Breasclete Pier
Breasclete
HS2 9ED
Operator: Bakkafrost Scotland
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

Eughlam Production cycle end date: Oct 2018
Total losses: 34.2 %

Eughlam Production cycle end date: Oct 2020
Total losses: 9 %

Eughlam Production cycle end date: Nov 2022
Total losses: 41.2 %

Eughlam Production cycle end date: Jun 2024
Total losses: 32.4 %

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Fish Health Inspectorate mortality

Date:
30/05/22-05/06/22
Mortality:
26,863
Mortality Rate:
3.35%
Reason given: Bacterial disease
Bacterial disease
Targeted biomass reduction
Furunculosis confirmed on site, biomass reduction to thin down stock. Moribunds being removed on a daily basis. FHI to monitor.
Date:
06/06/22-12/06/22
Mortality:
25,765
Mortality Rate:
3.32%
Reason given: Bacterial Disease
Bacterial Disease
Harvesting
Furunculosis confirmed on site, biomass reduction to thin down stock. FHI to monitor.
Date:
13/06/22-19/06/22
Mortality:
12,608
Mortality Rate:
1.78%
Reason given: Bacterial disease
Bacterial disease
Targeted biomass reduction
Mortality levels have decreasesd from previous weeks. Furunculosis confirmed on site, harvesting to thin down stock. FHI to monitor.
Date:
20/06/22-26/06/22
Mortality:
9,811
Mortality Rate:
1.57%
Reason given: Bacterial disease, viral disease
Bacterial disease, viral disease
Targeted biomass reduction
Mortality levels are decreasing from previous weeks. Furunculosis and CMS confirmed on site, harvesting to thin down stock. FHI to monitor.
Date:
04/07/22-10/07/22
Mortality:
6,569
Mortality Rate:
1.15%
Reason given: Viral Disease (CMS)
Viral Disease (CMS)
Harvests
Worst affected cages have been targeted for harvest. FHI to monitor.
Date:
11/07/22-17/07/22
Mortality:
10,848
Mortality Rate:
1.92%
Reason given: Viral Disease (CMS); Post-mechanical treatment
Viral Disease (CMS); Post-mechanical treatment
Harvests
Worst affected cages have been targeted for harvest. FHI to monitor.
Date:
18/07/22-24/07/22
Mortality:
6,262
Mortality Rate:
1.21%
Reason given: Viral Disease (CMS); Sea Lice related (Post-mechanical treatment)
Viral Disease (CMS); Sea Lice related (Post-mechanical treatment)
Harvests
Fallow by end of month but subject to change. FHI to monitor
Date:
15/08/22-21/08/22
Mortality:
3,195
Mortality Rate:
1.27%
Reason given: Viral Disease (CMS)
Viral Disease (CMS)
Harvests
FHI to monitor.
Date:
03/10/22-09/10/22
Mortality:
2,103
Mortality Rate:
2.12%
Reason given: Handling
Handling
Site fallowed wk 40
Site fallow. No further action.
Date:
18/09/23-24/09/23
Mortality:
9,970
Mortality Rate:
1.05%
Reason given: Gill Health Related
Gill Health Related
FW treatment week 38 (18-24/09/2023)
First report this year. FHI to monitor.
Date:
13/11/23-19/11/23
Mortality:
11,835
Mortality Rate:
1.33%
Reason given: Gill-health related
Gill-health related
Second report over last few months, similar level of mortality. FHI to monitor.
Date:
22/04/24-28/04/24
Mortality:
3,488
Mortality Rate:
1.56%
Reason given: Handling (Post-treatment)
Handling (Post-treatment)
Targeted Harvests. Business contacted: freshwater and FLS treatment for gill issues and lice.
Business contacted for further information. FHI to monitor.
Date:
13/05/24-19/05/24
Mortality:
6,310
Mortality Rate:
2.96%
Reason given: Gill health related; Handling; Viral Disease (CMS)
Gill health related; Handling; Viral Disease (CMS)
Harvests. Site expected to fallow by week 23.
FHI to monitor.
Date:
20/05/24-26/05/24
Mortality:
3,230
Mortality Rate:
1.71%
Reason given: Gill health related; Handling; Viral Disease (CMS)
Gill health related; Handling; Viral Disease (CMS)
Harvests
FHI to monitor.
Date:
27/05/24-02/06/24
Mortality:
4,403
Mortality Rate:
2.53%
Reason given: Gill health related; Handling; Viral Disease (CMS)
Gill health related; Handling; Viral Disease (CMS)
Harvests
FHI to monitor.

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Inspection reports

Case Number: 2020-0297


Download Recent Mortality SAL: 20-23/07/2020 0.05% 434; w/b 13/07/2020 0.06% 549; w/b 6/7/2020 10,666 1.21% w/b 29/06/2020 9,932 1,09% w/b 22/06/2020 1,451 0.15%
Mortality LUM: w/b 13/07/2020 2,167 morts (FW treatment) w/b 6/7/2020 13 morts w/b 29/06/2020 58 morts w/b 22/06/2020 0 morts
Lumpfish don't cope well with crowding, FW treatments or the Hydrolicer. Looking into options to exclude lumpfish from treatments but currently no feasible way to remove them.
PD diagnosed in stock on site, some issues with AGD & CGD. Sea lice have been low all cycle. Freshwater treatment currently ongoing. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2021-0173


Download Fish on site from West Strome (2020 S0), Loch Huamavat, Geocrab Hatchery and Clachan Hatchery (2020 S1). Delivery from
Clachan Hatchery was delayed and higher mortalities post transfer in pen 3 due to fungus. No issues with other inputs.
Site will stock with mix of lumpfish and wrasse at later date.
Fish have had Slice treatments in March and May. Only used Salmosan once during last cycle during transfer of some fish to another sea site. Hydrolicer treatments have been improved with clearance rates above 90% and less physical damage of fish.
New hydrolicer due to arrive with company later in the year which can process 300T per hour.
Site reported tuna and seal in pen 7 on 11 October 2020 and reported to FHI (MSe111020SAL1). Hole believed to have been caused by tuna and seal entered pen through the hole which was repaired. No fish escaped.
The 2020 S0 stock is due to be thinned soon and will be transferred to Vacasay in the autumn to make room for grading of S1 stock.
Water dark and fish low, but no moribund fish observed. All fish sampled for VMD appeared healthy.
Remote inspection conducted on 2/6/21 [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2021-0586


Download Recent Mortality events (FHI Notified):
0.67 Wk49
5.18 Wk48
2.52 Wk47
2.17 Wk46
1.03 Wk45
Stock origin is all hebridean smolts. Positive effects have been seen after freshwater and hydrolicer treatments. The north group experience the higher mortality on site, specifically pen 1, 2 and 3. In the south group, pen 13 is the worst affected currently. Pen 15 has been harvested out. Pen 14 also will be harvested out by January 2022. AGD is the overlying issue. In addition, low zinc levels has been identified in the population, compromising the skin health. New diet has been delayed as a result of weather; to aid skin.
Last treatment:
FW: 08/12/2021
Cleanerfish records:
Wk36 to Wk39 increased mortality as a freshwater treatment.

Mortalities disposed of commonly at whiteshore cockles. Due to high mortality, some have been ensiled on the wellboat
(Bakkanes).
In previous cycle (2020), tuna made a hole in the pen. Reported to FHI.
PSI conducted on the 14/12/2021 by , supervised by [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2023-0274


Download Wrasse peaks in mortality 2021 wk 51 (1855 (60.6%) AGD, treatment.
Salmon peaks in mortality 2021 Wk 40 17134 ((1.46%) AGD, mechanical treatment, pysical damage, wk 45 11884 (1.03%)
AGD, wk 46 24864 (2.17%) AGD, wk 47 28226 (2.52%) AGD, wk 48 56567 (5.18%) AGD, wk 49 42914 (4.14%) AGD, physical damage, wk 50 27686 (2.79%), wk 51 21111 (2.21%) AGD.
Salmon peaks in mortality 2022 wk 22 26863 (3.35%) pending diagnosois wk 23 25765 (3.32%), wk 24 12608 (1.78%) pending diagnosis, lesions, wk 25 9811 (1.57%) CMS, wk 27 6569 (1.15%) CMS, post treatment, wk 28 10848 (1.92%) CMS post treatment, wk 29 6262 ((1.21%) wk 40 2103 (2.12%) physical damage.
Fish feeding well, no issues this cycle since input. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2025-0451


Download Stocks on site include Q2 fish transferred from a seawater site and Q3 fish transferred from a freshwater site. Q2 fish arrived on site 12/07/2025 with Q3 fish beginning arriving on site between 22/07/2025 and 02/09/2025.
Mortality - Weeks 31 and 32, 2025 - 2.28% (11,646) and 3.29% (18,322) due to smolt transfer losses in the fish transferred from freshwater - these did not have to be reported to FHI as they were within the 6 week transfer window. Week 38, 2023 -
1.05% (9970) due to post treatment losses/AGD. Weeks 17, 20, 21 and 22, 2024 - 1.56% (3448), 2.96% (6310), 1.71% (3230) and 2.53% (4403) mostly due to PGD/AGD and post treatment losses. Numbers are low but percentage high as the site was harvesting to fallow at the time.
Treatments - Last cycle 2023/2024: Freshwater and FLS treatments in August, September, October 2023 and January, April,
May 2024.SLICE treatments in August, November 2023 and January 2024. This cycle: Alpha Max treatment July 2025. SLICE treatments August, September, October and November, 2025. Freshwater/FLS treatments August, September, October and
November 2025. SLICE treatments have been used as a preventative measure on site and all freshwater/FLS treatments were to treat AGD on site.
Health Surveillance - most recent company biology site visit 08.10.2025 - low levels of AGD and PGD seen visibly and gill swabs taken which were positive for AGD.
Physical inspection of the site was carried out on 26/11/2025 - due to adverse weather conditions all pens were inspected from the boat apart from pen 10 where a fish was taken for VMD sampling. No moribunds were observed on site and fish in pens that were being fed showed good feed responses. The fish observed in pen 10 were shoaling a couple of metres below the waters surface and the fish taken for VMD sampling appeared healthy both externally and internally and had 1 sea louse on it.
During the time of physical inspection the site was carrying out freshwater/FLS treatments on two cages.
Movement records were taken and transfer notes seen at the time of inspection and mortality and treatment records were also discussed. A remote inspection looking at all remaining paperwork was carried out on 04/12/2025. [Original PDF]

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