Saless of vaccine doses down by 9%

December sales ended down at 9.9 million doses from 15.8 million vaccine doses in December 2011. The development in 2012 was not unexpected and we have seen the twelve months sales of salmon vaccines stabilizing at this level since spring 2012. In total 112.5 million

PD-vaccine doses were sold in 2012 compared to 100.5 million doses in 2011 which is an increase of 12 %. In 2010 PD-vaccine sales were 89 million doses. In December 2.6 million doses were ordered compared to 4.4 million doses same month 2011.

Sales of ISA-vaccines fell to a total of 1.4 million doses in 2012 compared to 8.4 million doses in 2011.Full year vaccine sales to trout in 2012 were 19 million doses as oil-based vaccines only. In 2011 sales were 23 million doses whereof 4.9 million doses were water-based vibrio vaccines.The development in vaccine sales to farmed cod showed a substantial increase in the second half year and ended at 6.6 million doses compared to 2.7 million doses in 2011.