Site Details: Wyre

Orkney Regional Office
Scapa
Orkney
KW15 1SD
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

Wyre Production cycle end date: May 2019
Total losses: 9.1 %

Wyre Production cycle end date: Sep 2021
Total losses: 16.7 %

Wyre Production cycle end date: Jul 2023
Total losses: 5.9 %

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Fish Health Inspectorate mortality

Date:
17/04/23-23/04/23
Mortality:
1,391
Mortality Rate:
1.2%
Reason given: Environmental
Environmental
Following strong tides; mortality reducing
First notification, large fish on site and exceptional tides resulted in the increased mortality. Suspicion of CMS but not confirmed, mortality levels are below the reporting limit the next week. FHI to monitor.

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Inspection reports

Case Number: 2020-0014


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Site used as nursery site for Eday site and fish will be split down March.
Mortalities transferred to the SSF yard in Twatt and put in bulk container for uplift, BMP states that morts are taken to shorebase for incineration.
Peroxide treatment 1-6 December for gill issues.
One hole in the net due to seal in October 2019. To check if been reported 29/10/19
Some Caligus usually in the summer, Slice treatment administered for this, no welfare issues.
Biosecurity plan details shore based incinerator but morts are taken to SS
Seal damaged fish evident in several pens. Seal pro nets had been successfully used in previous cycles however these are not being effective this cycle. One pen had been raised to lift the seal pro section higher, this is reported to be effective. [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2022-0216


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No moribund fish observed while on site. All fish appeared healthy and feeding well. Fish removed for vmd sampling showed no signs of disease (externally and internally).
No FS numbers in movement book - last manager never added them in after last visit. New manager reminded to add them in future.
All fish from Barcaldine Smolt Unit in November/December 2021.
Wk 4 2022 mortality (2532 fish, 0.5%) due to lesion/storm/runt/ failed smolts - only been in the water 8 weeks.
Active substance in Azasure is Azametifos. Site treated with Azasure 19th-24th May 2022.
Very rarely the site would get staff from another site to help out but this hasn't happened anytime recently.
Biologist report 9/05/2022 nothing major, a little bit of AGD.
Vet visit 31st March - Detected AGD in 1/10 samples.
VMD samples from cages 1 and 11, sampled by .
Site paperwork and inspection carried out by , supervised by . [Original PDF]

Case Number: 2024-0049


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Site transitioning from 12 100m to 9 120m - only 4 x 120m circles on site right now.
Fish arrived on site 20th September 2023
Treatments this cycle: Just finished SLICE - 13th-19th Feb. Freshwater 11th Dec AGD.
Last cycles treatments: Paramove (14-16th July then 11-12 Sep 2022) , SLICE (8-14th August 2022), thermolicer (Nov/Dec
2022)
WRS mortality: In 2024 up to wk5 only 64 fish. End of last year WRS mortality was larger due to freshwater treatment Wk 44 -
118 , wk45 - 275, wk46 - 364, wk47 - 156, wk48 - 233, wk49 - 90, wk50 - 921, wk51 - 78.
WRS stocked 27/10/2023 (total 3394) and then 3 small shipments in November 2023 (1395). Large wrasse mortality during wk50 2023 (921 fish, approx. 26%) due to freshwater treatment on site. Wrasse were put through with the salmon during the freshwater treatment due to the need to also be treated for AGD. As per the company's cleanerfish booklet the freshwater treatments were shortened to 3 hours to try minimise any mortality.
Sealice: Last cycle Adult females were above 1 between Wk3-Wk9 2023 (Thermolicer in week 10) and then Wk22 2023 and above 2 (2.07) in Wk23 2023 - fish had CMS and lice levels were 0.9 in wk24 due to harvesting out of fish.
FMA going to be reviewed in April. The FMA is not fallowed synchronously on a single year class basis but an appropriate risk assessment exists.
The 9 fish taken for VMD samples appeared healthy both internally and externally. Sealice levels observed were low apart from two gravids observed on one fish from cage 9.
Due to bad weather (high winds and large waves) only small sections of each pen were observed from the walkway - the rest was observed from the site workboat. Fish were observed shoaling slightly deeper In the cage. Fish had a good feeding response.
Remote inspection for the majority of the paperwork was conducted on 21/02/2024 with the rest including the physical inspection of the site and VMD samples taken on 27/02/2024. [Original PDF]

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