ISA detected at another Iceland salmon farm
First detected in December 2021, the virus has since been found at three separate sites.
NTS subsidiary Icelandic salmon farmer Ice Fish Farm suspects infectious salmon anemia (ISA) at its Hamraborg farming site, it announced Friday.
The site consists of approximately 890,000 fish weighing and average 2.137 kilograms.
The consequences of the suspected disease are difficult to estimate at the moment, according to a release by the company to the Oslo Stock Exchange, but the presence of the disease will likely reduce Ice Fish Farm's expected harvest volume for 2022 and 2023, the company said.
The event comes just days after ISA was detected at Laxar's Vattarnes farming operations in Iceland.
That site consist of approximately 1.1 million fish weighing an average 2.748 kilograms. Again, the impact of the disease is difficult to estimate at this time, but harvest volumes are expected to be lower as a result this year and next.
It is not the first finding of ISA at a Laxar farm. A month ago the company also detected the virus at its Sigmundarhus site. That site consisted of approximately 1 million fish weighing an average 0.476 kilograms. The smaller size of the fish means the impact will to be felt in 2023 only, according to the company.