Using fish mortality data to assess reporting thresholds as a tool for detection of potential disease concerns in the Scottish farmed salmon industry

This work supports the previously described benchmarking thresholds for reporting mortality events as an indicator of emerging diseases issues. This work considers data for all producers in Scotland across geographic regions and represents fish production cohorts between 2002-2009. By having a reporting threshold, it will enable the fish health inspectorate to reduce production losses through diseases issues and also provide a means of acting as an early warning system for potential emerging diseases issues.