Suspecting that lethal salmon disease ISA has spread to Marine Harvest – NRK

It is suspected ISA infection in Marine Harvest plant Grøtting Søya. The suspicion came a few days after it was proven ISA SalMars two plants, Ørnøya and Ørnøya II.

– We have undertaken two samples. A sample was positive, while the B sample was negative, says Ola Helge Hjetland, Communications Director of Marine Harvest.

Eight construction bånn added

FSA enters the plant Friday taking samples that give a definitive answer on whether it is ISA infection in the facility.

When the virus was detected in SalMar’s facilities, all farms within five kilometers bånn added. Also some construction outside was bånn added.

Grøtting Søya was basically outside the bånn tiled zone. A total of eight plants is the metal added as of now.

It is not allowed to move fish or equipment in and out of the bånn tiled plants.

The salmon disease ISA appear at irregular intervals .

the disease is deadly to salmon, but people are not harmed by it. The salmon are infected must be slaughtered immediately.

– The salmon that have demonstrated disease must Slight before normal time. In the zone there are harvestable fish, so this does not get very serious consequences for companies in the first place, says Toril Lund Celius, veterinary FSA.

Originating from the onset Nordmøre

the virus appeared in SalMar construction Ørnøya and Ørnøya II this week is related to the outbreak in Nordmøre last year.

– How the infection has come from there, we know not yet. We are working to investigate it, says Celius.

NRK spoke with Måsøval Fish farming, which has a plant within the bånn tiled zone. The company has since last autumn made frequent ISA samples.

– We got answers to a test yesterday, which was negative. We follow very closely and have good practices to avoid infection, says CEO Måsøval Fish farming, Asle Rønning.