SRS is the most frequent disease in Chilean sea farms
According to the Sanitary Report for the first half-year 2012 produced by the National Service of Fisheries and Aquaculture (Sernapesca), there were 339 diagnostics positive to SRS in the first six months of this year. 237 of those diagnostics were reported in Atlantic salmon, 59 cases in Rainbow trout and 38 in Coho salmon.
IPNv was the second most frequently diagnosed disease in salmonids with 70 cases. 33 of them were reported in Atlantic salmon, 22 in Rainbow trout and 15 in Coho salmon.
The Sanitary Report also describes a moderate increase in the sea lice abundance in the first half-year of 2012 compared to the same period of 2011, especially in the 11th Region (Aysén). Sernapesca explains that this situation is explained by the larger biomass of fish seen in the first six months of this year which is 50.69 percent higher than in the same months of 2011. Likewise, most of this increase (83.33%) was observed in the region of Aysén.
