HEART AND SKELETAL INFLAMMATION DISEASE

• Heart and skeletal muscle inflammation is a disease that causes lesions on the heart • Makes fish lethargic • Believed to be triggered by stress • First observed in 1999 Atlantic salmon farmed in Norway • Not on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s list of reportable diseases, which are considered of significant importance to human or animal health • Mortality on farms tends to be low, however it may kill up to 20 per cent of fish on an affected farm. Farm-wide mortality was not shown to increase with HSMI in this study