Site Details: Skelwick Skerry

Unit 3 Quarry Road
Pierowall Westray
KW17 2DH
Operator: Cooke Aquaculture Scotland 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

Production cycle end date: Aug 2019
Total losses: 1.3 %

Production cycle end date: Oct 2020
Total losses: 1.1 %

Production cycle end date: Oct 2021
Total losses: 6.8 %

Production cycle end date: Oct 2022
Total losses: 10.6 %

Production cycle end date: Sep 2023
Total losses: 47.3 %

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Fish Health Inspectorate mortality

Date:
09/01/23-15/01/23
Mortality:
3,704
Mortality Rate:
2.28%
Reason given: Gill Heath/Handling
Gill Heath/Handling
First report this cycle. Business correspondant contacted and mortality levels have dropped below reporting levels for wk 3. FHI to monitor.
Date:
28/08/23-03/09/23
Mortality:
1,548
Mortality Rate:
1.04%
Reason given: Viral Disease
Viral Disease
CMS identified. Site is currently being harvested out.
Business correspondent contacted. FHI to monitor.
Date:
08/09/23-14/09/23
Mortality:
1,563
Mortality Rate:
1.27%
Reason given: Gill Health+CMS
Gill Health+CMS
Site to be fallow by October. FHI to monitor.
Date:
11/09/23-17/09/23
Mortality:
1,908
Mortality Rate:
2.20%
Reason given: Gill Health+CMS
Gill Health+CMS
Site to be fallow by October. FHI to monitor.

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Inspection reports

Case Number: 2022-0102


Download Normally, Skelwick Skerry is the grower site, as the other sites around Westray are nursery sites. Stock is usually transferred onto site at 1.6-3kg until harvest size. Fish have been graded at Bay of Cleat (North) onto the wellboat and then transferred to
Skelwick.
Mortality is uplifted by the Foover and taken in mort bins to pier on Westray. Mort bins are taken to dounebay were they are tran
Skelwick Skerry is not remote fed, due to its offshore location. Feed blower on work boats conduct the feeding instead.
Due to windy weather and wave height, only 4 pens were fully walked around and inspected. The other 4 were viewed from the
Remote inspection conducted by on 13/05/2022, supervised by
Site inspection conducted by on 17/05/2022, supervised by .
VMD samples taken on 17/05/2022 by supervised by . [Original PDF]

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