Inspections carried out by the Fish Health Inspectorate: EIR release

Information requested

1. The total number of inspections carried out by the Fish Health Inspectorate (“FHI”) at fish farms owned by (i) Scottish Sea Farms Limited (“SSF”) from March 2021 – present (“period 1”); (ii) Grieg Seafood Shetland Limited / SSF Shetland Limited (“Grieg Seafood”) in the period December 2021 – present (“period 2”).
2. In relation to each inspection, the mode of the inspection at each farm (whether it was conducted in person, by phone, on paper only, or by other means).

Response

Please find the following information detailing inspections to sites operated by the businesses specified within the time scale of your request.

The total number of FHI inspections conducted at fish farms owned by Scottish Sea Farms Limited from 01 March 2021 to 07 February 2023 was 78. All of these visits involved inspections at the fish farm sites, however three visits could not be concluded due to weather conditions and two visits were not concluded because of on-site biosecurity restrictions.

The total number of FHI inspections conducted at fish farms owned by Greig Seafood Shetland Limited / SSF Shetland Limited from 01 December 2021 to 07 February 2023 was 8. All of these visits were conducted at sites registered against SSF Shetland Ltd. No inspections were conducted against Greig Seafood Shetland Ltd for that time period. Of the 8 inspections conducted, 7 of the visits involved inspection at the fish farm site and one of which could not be completed due to adverse weather conditions. One inspection was undertaken remotely (through either telephone, MS Teams and/or email communications only without a physical site inspection).

All physical inspections (in person) conducted at fish farm sites would have involved either telephone, MS Teams or email communications as part of the inspection process. In most cases the process would have employed multiple methods of such communications.

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