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Ian Cloke
Guest
OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL KIDNEY DISEASE
Movement of fish to and from Test Valley Trout (Itchen), a rainbow trout farm based in Hampshire, is now prohibited following the recent detection of Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD).
BKD has no implications for human health but can cause large numbers of mortalities in both farmed and wild salmon and trout.
A Designated Area Order was issued by Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) after tests on a trout sample by Fish Health Inspectors, detected the disease. BKD is a notifiable disease under the Disease of Fish Act 1937.
Fish Health Inspectors undertook an examination of the fish stocks on TVT (Itchen) as the site was a recipient of fish from a Scottish fish farm where BKD was isolated.
The clinical signs of the disease include protruding eyes, a swollen abdomen, pale anaemic gills and haemorrhaging at the base of the gills. Anyone suspicious of a possible outbreak of BKD or have noticed signs similar to these, should immediately contact the Fish Health Inspectorate at CEFAS Weymouth.
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Notes for editors
1. The Diseases of Fish (Designated Areas) (England)(No.2) Order 2005 restricts the movement of any live fish or live fish eggs into or out of the designated area without the prior written consent of Defra.
2. The designated area is Test Valley Trout (Itchen): Main Road, Itchen Abbas, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1BQ.
3. Bacterial Kidney Disease was first recognised in Atlantic salmon on the River Dee, Scotland in the 1930s. In 1976 the first notable case of BKD in farmed rainbow trout was found. Whilst the disease is considered serious and notifiable under EU law, it is not widespread in Great Britain and occurs only sporadically.
4. Copies of the booklet "Combating Fish Disease" is freely available on the Defra website www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/regulat/forms/fish/dof21.htm. Other information on fish disease can also be found on the Defra website at www.defra.gov.uk/fish/fishfarm/index.htm
Movement of fish to and from Test Valley Trout (Itchen), a rainbow trout farm based in Hampshire, is now prohibited following the recent detection of Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD).
BKD has no implications for human health but can cause large numbers of mortalities in both farmed and wild salmon and trout.
A Designated Area Order was issued by Defra (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) after tests on a trout sample by Fish Health Inspectors, detected the disease. BKD is a notifiable disease under the Disease of Fish Act 1937.
Fish Health Inspectors undertook an examination of the fish stocks on TVT (Itchen) as the site was a recipient of fish from a Scottish fish farm where BKD was isolated.
The clinical signs of the disease include protruding eyes, a swollen abdomen, pale anaemic gills and haemorrhaging at the base of the gills. Anyone suspicious of a possible outbreak of BKD or have noticed signs similar to these, should immediately contact the Fish Health Inspectorate at CEFAS Weymouth.
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Notes for editors
1. The Diseases of Fish (Designated Areas) (England)(No.2) Order 2005 restricts the movement of any live fish or live fish eggs into or out of the designated area without the prior written consent of Defra.
2. The designated area is Test Valley Trout (Itchen): Main Road, Itchen Abbas, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1BQ.
3. Bacterial Kidney Disease was first recognised in Atlantic salmon on the River Dee, Scotland in the 1930s. In 1976 the first notable case of BKD in farmed rainbow trout was found. Whilst the disease is considered serious and notifiable under EU law, it is not widespread in Great Britain and occurs only sporadically.
4. Copies of the booklet "Combating Fish Disease" is freely available on the Defra website www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/regulat/forms/fish/dof21.htm. Other information on fish disease can also be found on the Defra website at www.defra.gov.uk/fish/fishfarm/index.htm