Grieg Seafood instructed to cull 1 million salmon

Bergen, Norway-headquartered Grieg Seafood is to cull approximately 1 million salmon at farms in its Finnmark production region following the discovery of an infection-causing parasite.

In a filing with the Oslo Børs, Grieg said it had been notified by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority that it is required to cull the fish in eight single pens on two farms in the Finnmark region, due to detection of Spironucleus salmonicida.

Collectively these salmon pens contained about a million fish, averaging about 700 grams each ... 

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