– We are going to review because both the companies have shown a lack of ability to control the lice situation in their farms, and fish in the plants have been exposed for massive luseangrep, with major damage on the fish, said regional director Bjorn Røthe Knudtsen the Fsa.
– Unacceptable fish welfare
the Image from the Langskjæra facility that is operated by Lerøy in the Middle, shows that the sea has eaten its way all the way down to the hodebeinet on the salmon.
Photo: the Norwegian food safety Authority
A total miljøbevegelse and Norway’s fiskeriminister is shaken by the images that the Fsa has taken on the outer side of the Frøya earlier in the fall.
Fiskevelferdsproblemene has been completely unacceptable. This is a situation that is so unusual that the Norwegian food safety Authority have chosen to go to the review of the companies, ” says regional director Bjorn Røthe Knudtsen.
Lerøy in the Middle and Måsøval fish Farming has been notified by the Fsa to more than halve production for the food safety supervision. Images from the audit shows the fish as the closest living oppspist of the lice.
Stringent response
regional director of Norwegian food safety Authority, Bjørn Røthe Knudtsen.
Photo: the Norwegian food safety Authority
the Sites have been considerably high lusetall – from 60 to 90 per fish (0.5 and mature lice are the limit that is acceptable in the day) and the salmon in the facilities received major damage after extensive luseangrep. This shows for the food safety assessment that the companies do not have good enough procedures, emergency or internal controls that safeguards fiskevelferden in a good way, says the Norwegian food safety Authority.
When you have previously given permission to reduce production, why do you go now to the step to politianmelde companies?
to reduce the quantity is something that will apply for the next production period. When we reach the reviewer, there is a further and more stringent use of the reactions, and in addition to the forsiktigshetsregelen for the future period. Next time they must prove that they can drive with better result. This is of the most serious cases we have had in the relationship between sea lice and fish welfare, ” says the regional director Bjorn Røthe Knudtsen
Breeder: Ask for your understanding
executive vice President Stig Nilsen in Lerøy Seafood Group asks for the understanding that the company in the first place will respond to the Fsa directly and writes the following to NRK in an email:
– In response, the company will comment on the claims about the company’s operations, and answer questions that are posed, in a proper and satisfactory manner. We are of the opinion that the company’s response will correct that impression now created. When it comes to food safety press release about the review we ask for the understanding that the communication around this until further notice will take place directly with the different authorities.
the Chief executive in Måsøval farming Asle Rønning tell NRK that they are informed about the review, but not as of now do not know the contents of it.
– the Company takes the review to the intelligence and will respond and cooperate with the police if and when this becomes applicable.
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