Photo: Lice-infested salmon farmed by Scottish Sea Farms
"All four fish had a sea lice load of over 50," states a damning report slipped out on 19 December 2019 by the Scottish Government's Fish Health Inspectorate of an inspection of Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Kishorn in September 2019. "Sea lice damage was evident on the heads of fish 1, 3 & 4" (only 4 fish were sampled and inspectors only visited one cage due to "very poor" weather).
According to lice data published by the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation, the Scottish Sea Farms Kishorn B (North) salmon farm was the second most infested salmon farm in September 2019:
The Fish Health Inspection report dated 23 October 2019 also detailed disease problems including Salmonid Alphavirus (Pancreas Disease), Cardiomyopathy Syndrome, Salmon Gill Poxvirus and Proliferative Gill Disease at Scottish Sea Farms in Loch Kishorn.
Scottish Sea Farms Tweeted (7 January 2020):
Shamefully, the Fish Health Inspectorate did not take photos from their inspection of Scottish Sea Farms lice-infested feedlot in Loch Kishorn in September 2019 (photos from previous inspections of Scottish Sea Farms are available online here and online here).
The BBC One Show broadcast video footage of mass mortalities at Loch Kishorn in December 2017.
Here's more photos of disease-ridden salmon farmed by Scottish Sea Farms (obtained via FOI despite threats by lawyers acting for Scottish Sea Farms and The Scottish Salmon Company):
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Fish Farmer magazine reported (14 November 2019):
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