Fish Farming: Salmon

(asked on 14th October 2026) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data her Department holds on the number of salmon aquaculture sites in England and Wales that have used chemical treatments to control sea lice in the last five years; and whether she has a list of the active substances used.


Answered by
Stephen Morgan Portrait
Stephen Morgan
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
This question was answered on 19th October 2026

There are no marine salmon aquaculture sites in England or Wales. Therefore, there are no recorded uses of chemical sea-lice treatments or sea-lice outbreaks.

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