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Riddance™
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SEPA[1] Scottish Environmental Protection Agency - Policy Document 40:
‘Policy on Regulation and Expansion of Caged Fish Farming of Salmon in
Scotland’:
"One of the major difficulties facing the industry is
the proliferation of sea-lice in marine salmon farms. The lice do
considerable damage to the farmed fish and there is now growing
acceptance that stress induced by increased lice burdens on wild
salmonid species linked to fish farm infestations may be contributing to
the decline of these wild stocks where farms lie close to migration
routes."
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Sea Lice Control
This project is to develop a product to control sea lice, a debilitating and ubiquitous ectoparasite of farmed salmon. Sea lice management (treatments, labour, and losses) in Scottish farmed salmon costs £33m annually and £305m worldwide.
The product is most likely to be added to fish feed (an "in-feed") and taken up by the salmon so when the sea lice take a blood meal from the salmon they receive a dose that stops them feeding again. The product has no effect on the host fish or when consumed.
NeemCo is working in collaboration with the Scottish Salmon Producers' Organization that represents 95% of the Scottish Salmon farming industry and the University of Stirling at the Marine Environmental Research Laboratory (MERL) at Machrihanish in Kintyre.
Pilot trials have clearly demonstrated the potential for NeemCo to develop a highly effective control for sea lice, sharply limiting parasite numbers. Previous work by NeemCo in other markets has indicated that it should be possible to produce an environmentally benign commercial product.
NeemCo has the trademark Riddance™ for its sea lice treatment.
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