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SCOTLAND, UK - Cooke Aquaculture is pleased to announce the closing of its deal with Marine Harvest for the purchase of its fully owned subsidiary, Meridian Salmon Farms Limited. Meridian is a leading Scottish salmon farming company with assets in Shetland, Orkney and the mainland of Scotland.

"IRELAND - Sea lice infestation is unlikely to be a significant factor influencing the conservation status of salmon stocks according to a research paper published in the latest edition of the prestigious Journal of Fish Diseases."

"CHILE - An outbreak of Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA) has been detected on a fish farm in Chile. The Southern Cross Seafood farm is located at 18B ACS (macrozone 6), in the northern area of ??Aysen, near Melinka. Th outbreak was detected in a cage in the Arbolito center during routine surveillance. Sernapesca has now restricted movements of fish from the farm and is conducting surveillance inspections on the affected area. Sernapesca is expecting to know the strain of the ISA virus within the next 72 hours.

ESKO FLAG covers the coastal region of the Gulf of Finland. This is an area with a long tradition of professional small-scale coastal fishing, though the number of registered full-time fishermen has been steadily declining over the past 25 years and it is increasingly difficult to get new and younger people to continue this traditional activity. In recent years, questions have been raised about the sustainability of fishing activities in this area. Notably, WWF Finland publishes a yearly consumer guide, which classifies the main types of fish caught in this area, especially salmon and whitefish, as endangered, threatened or protected species, and recommends consumers not to buy them. To compound the problem, there are also some conflicts between fishing professionals, recreational fishing and fishing tourism concerning the exploitation of fish stocks in the area.