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Fish Health Management Quarter One - January to March 2014

SALMONSustainable Scottish

SSPO HEALTH MANAGEMNT REPORT 2014

Overview 3

Integrated Sea Lice Management 3

Fallowing 4

Information Exchange 4

Performance 5

Region Map 6

Statistics 7

Contents

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Overview

“All the production sites were stocked with just one year class of fish.”

This report marks the beginning of the second year of reporting fish health management information, specifically looking at sea lice.

During this quarter 179 sites were stocked with salmon, approximately 75% of the active sites in Scotland. All the production sites were stocked with just one year class of fish, as required by the Code of Good Practice for Scottish Finfish Aquaculture.

The Code of Good Practice requirements on sea lice management reflect Integrated Sea Lice Management protocols which were pioneered in Scotland and are now used internationally.

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Integrated Sea Lice Management

Information exchange

Area management

FallowingSingle year class stocking

All in/all out stocking

Synchronisation

Weekly monitoring

Treatment using licensed medicines

Cleaner fish Lice filtrationPhysical barrier

Research and innovation

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Leaving a site fallow at the end of a production cycle is a proven tool in fish health and sea lice management. During this quarter, all production sites were fallowed before they were restocked with fish. While the Code of Good Practice requires a minimum of four weeks fallowing, the average for all sites containing fish in this quarter was actually 19.9 weeks. This is excellent practice in sea lice management.

Fallowing

Information Exchange

“This represents day to day co-ordination between three companies and 16 farm sites.”

CASE STUDYDuring this quarter all sites in the north west of Scotland (north of Ullapool) agreed to exchange “real-time” fish health and production information using the SSPO fish health management system. The area covers the Kennart to Gruinard and Inchard to Kirkaig North & South regions. This represents day to day co-ordination between three companies and 16 farm sites.

The reporting of fish health management allows for greater understanding amongst neighbouring sites and the co-ordination of farming activities. There is now extensive communication and co-operation amongst farms in large areas of Scotland, where salmon farming takes place.

SSPO continues to share the information contained in the fish health management reports with Scottish Government scientists at the Marine Laboratory.

For all sites stocked last year 99.2% were fallowed

for four weeks or longer prior to fish being returned to the farm. This ensures

high health status.

99.2%

On average the fallowed sites were left empty for 19.9 weeks.

19.9WEEKS

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LiceThe mild weather during the autumn and winter of 2013, which continued during the first three months of this year, provided ideal conditions for sea lice. As a result farmers have treated proactively against lice.

Performance

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“Overall the average adult

female lice count across

all regions in quarter one

was 0.63.”

“Overall 65% of regions

remained under the Code

of Good Practice suggested

treatment threshold during

the quarter.”

January - suggested threshold is 1

February and March - suggested threshold is 0.5

Over 1

2+

From 0.5-1

From 1-2

<0.5

<1.0

73%

60%

17%

10%

28%

12%

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Key

25 Hope and Grudie

26-N Inchard to Kirkaig North

26-S Inchard to Kirkaig South

27 Kennart to Gruinard

28 Ewe

29 Badachro to Applecross

30 Kishorn and Carron

31 Loch Long and Croe

32 Glenelg and Kilchoan

33 Morar to Shiel

34-N Skye and Small Isles north

34-S Skye and Small Isles South

35 Sunart and Aline

36-N Sanda to Creran North

36-S Sanda to Creran South

37 Awe and Nell

38 Add and Ormsary

39 Island of Mull

40 Islay and Jura

41 Carradale and Iorsa

42 Fyne

43 Ruel and Drummachloy

Region Map

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0 50 100 km

61

36-N

36-S

37

42

43

41

38

40

58-W

58-E

59

60-N

60-S

34-N

25

26-N

34-S

26-S

27

2829

30

31

32

33

35

39

58-E Isle of Lewis East

58-W Isle of Lewis West

59 Harris

60-N The Uists North

60-S The Uists South

61 Orkney

62-E East Shetland

62-W West Shetland

62-W

62-E

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StatisticsAr

ea N

ame

Area

co

de

Adul

t Fem

ale

Coun

t 201

3Ad

ult F

emal

e Co

unt 2

014

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

June

July

Aug

Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Hope

and

Gru

die

250.

140.

120.

140.

220.

400.

30F

FF

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

Inch

ard

to K

irkai

g N

orth

26-N

2.64

1.76

1.97

2.40

1.26

1.12

1.51

3.72

9.42

6.27

1.09

0.21

0.78

1.36

1.77

Inch

ard

to K

irkai

g So

uth

Curr

ently

no

activ

e sa

lmon

farm

s

Kenn

art t

o Gr

uina

rd27

4.19

4.61

4.57

2.27

2.56

2.09

3.13

4.80

9.26

10.2

74.

875.

112.

762.

221.

50

Ewe

280.

000.

000.

000.

000.

000.

010.

04F

FF

FF

0.00

0.00

0.00

Bada

chro

to A

pple

cros

s29

0.92

0.57

0.31

0.24

0.61

0.70

0.92

2.24

12.1

05.

18F

FF

0.00

0.00

Kish

orn

and

Carr

on30

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.01

0.01

0.18

0.43

0.99

0.97

2.86

2.09

0.45

Loch

Lon

g an

d Cr

oe31

FF

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.01

0.01

0.16

0.25

0.78

1.58

0.96

1.03

1.21

Glen

elg

to K

ilcho

an32

0.10

0.18

0.07

0.02

0.01

0.04

0.02

0.07

0.09

0.01

0.02

0.03

0.09

0.15

0.10

Mor

ar to

Shi

el33

0.60

0.56

F0.

020.

040.

030.

050.

190.

120.

210.

670.

170.

240.

541.

01

Skye

and

Sm

all I

sles

Nor

th34

-N0.

070.

160.

010.

020.

020.

020.

040.

200.

591.

021.

441.

111.

682.

173.

15

Skye

and

Sm

all I

sles

Sou

th34

-S0.

020.

020.

000.

000.

000.

040.

020.

150.

320.

480.

550.

280.

010.

000.

05

Suna

rt a

nd A

line

350.

080.

120.

070.

040.

030.

020.

040.

120.

030.

020.

020.

040.

100.

150.

35

Sand

a to

Cre

ran

Nor

th36

-N0.

230.

340.

100.

250.

290.

580.

591.

302.

026.

02F

FF

0.00

0.00

Sand

a to

Cre

ran

Sout

h36

-S0.

350.

370.

260.

370.

400.

740.

851.

020.

620.

520.

410.

40F

F0.

00

Awe

and

Nell

370.

270.

260.

190.

200.

700.

370.

560.

681.

965.

858.

482.

853.

742.

602.

38

Add

and

Orm

sary

381.

840.

720.

650.

540.

250.

060.

040.

331.

402.

563.

172.

323.

451.

020.

36

Isla

nd o

f Mul

l39

0.21

0.16

0.04

0.04

0.01

0.03

0.04

0.15

0.40

0.68

1.67

2.49

1.21

3.49

1.59

Isla

y an

d Ju

ra40

FF

FF

F0.

851.

103.

125.

605.

2012

.45

4.00

5.20

BB

Carr

adal

e an

d Io

rsa

410.

020.

000.

000.

000.

010.

080.

560.

870.

860.

240.

270.

050.

00F

F

Fyne

420.

110.

160.

240.

270.

430.

42F

F0.

000.

000.

000.

000.

000.

000.

00

Ruel

and

Dru

mm

achl

oy43

FF

A0.

000.

000.

000.

000.

010.

030.

040.

070.

000.

030.

030.

07

Isle

of L

ewis

Eas

t58

-E0.

230.

320.

040.

090.

130.

080.

310.

541.

093.

233.

858.

030.

590.

330.

83

Isle

of L

ewis

Wes

t58

-WF

F0.

000.

000.

000.

000.

000.

010.

000.

030.

080.

170.

380.

310.

15

Harr

is59

1.98

2.58

2.02

2.81

0.61

0.84

1.36

1.44

1.77

0.39

0.26

0.05

0.10

0.19

0.17

The

Uist

s N

orth

60-N

1.87

0.30

0.45

0.94

1.27

1.94

1.02

1.29

1.82

2.21

2.30

0.76

1.68

0.70

0.54

The

Uist

s So

uth

60-S

0.38

0.27

0.08

0.15

0.25

0.47

1.26

1.74

2.90

3.76

7.70

2.83

0.83

0.68

0.55

Orkn

ey61

0.00

0.02

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.03

0.00

0.00

0.00

0.00

Shet

land

Eas

t62

-E0.

250.

640.

200.

140.

180.

290.

150.

200.

360.

540.

620.

490.

511.

010.

75

Shet

land

Wes

t62

-W0.

270.

270.

060.

060.

370.

350.

350.

940.

850.

430.

350.

140.

120.

150.

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This table provides a summary of the monthly lice averages (adult females) for each reporting region. Averages for 2013 are included.

F =

fallo

w

A =

are

a re

cent

ly s

tock

ed

B =

bro

odst

ock

site

, vis

ual c

ount

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