Guidance
Prevent fish or shellfish diseases
Reduce the risk of disease, find out where notifiable diseases have been found and what to do if your fish or shellfish have a disease.
Each year thousands of fish and shellfish die from disease. Recovering from an outbreak can take a long time and can be very expensive.
Serious fish and shellfish diseases
You must tell the Fish Health Inspectorate (FHI) if fish or shellfish:
- could be infected with a serious or notifiable disease
- are dying in larger numbers or dying in a way you haven’t seen before
Prevent the spread of disease in fish and shellfish
You can help control the spread of disease if you:
- follow rules for imports
- perform regular monitoring to spot disease early
- contain outbreaks as quickly as possible
- use good fish husbandry practice
- follow rules when moving fish
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keep health records using the
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keep medicine records using the
- follow a biosecurity measures plan:
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Control areas for notifiable disease outbreaks
If a notifiable disease is found, FHI puts controls in place to limit the spread of disease (these areas are known as confirmed designations).
If your fish or shellfish are in a control area you must:
- comply with any conditions issued by FHI
- get written permission from FHI to move fish or equipment (allow at least 5 working days)
Fish
Maps of areas with controls in place to limit the spread of spring viraemia of carp (SVC):
2017
Maps of areas with controls in place to limit the spread of koi herpesvirus disease (KHV):
2017
2016
Shellfish
You can use an interactive map (Desktop. Mobile) to view shellfish disease controls across Great Britain.
Alternatively below are individual maps of control areas of each disease:
Bonamia ostreae
Oyster herpesvirus
Marteilia refringens
Contacts
Fish Health Inspectorate
Email fhi@cefas.co.uk
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm 01305 206700
Environment Agency
PO Box 544
Rotherham
Yorkshire
S60 1BY
Email enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk
Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm 0370 8506 506
From outside the UK +44 1709 389 201
Last updated 31 January 2018 + show all updates
- Confrimed Designations from 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014 and some of the sites in 2016. They list has been removed from this page and has been moved to the press release page 'Outbreaks of Koi herpesvirus disease' and added to the list of finished outbreaks. And the CD for Manderson Trust Lakes from 2017 attachment has been included.
- Added Cleverley Mare, Essex
- Added Boating Lake, Northamptonshire
- Added White Shots Reservoir, Essex and The Cunneries, Lancashire
- Added Hampstead Heath Ponds, London
- Added Lea Farm Lakes, Berkshire
- Removed The Jungle, Derbyshire
- Added Windsor View Lakes, Berkshire
- Added Danson Park, Kent; The Jungle, Derbyshire and Frogmore Fishery, Hertfordshire
- Added Cleveley Bridge Fishery Complex, Lancashire
- Added Sam Hosticks Fisheries, East Yorkshire
- Added Willows Farm Fishery, Hertfordshire Removed Porton Ventures, Wiltshire
- Added Tyersal Hall Fishery, West Yorkshire
- Added Newlake, Humberside
- Added Bannister House Fishery, Lancashire
- Added Porton Ventures UK Ltd
- Added Meadows Fishery and Manor Park Fishery, Staffordshire
- Added Mansfield Lake, Kent
- Added designation notice for Risbey Park Fisheries, Beverley
- Added The Lakeside, Surrey
- Added East Sussed: Swanborough Fishing Lake
- Added details for SVC at Arden Lakes, Warwickshire
- Removed confirmed designations for: Gorsty Hall Fishing Lakes (Cheshire), Coopers Arms Lake and Weston Moat Fishery (Derbyshire), Frant Lakes (East Sussex), Morehall Fishery (South Yorkshire), Tin Mill Dam (South Yorkshire), Henstead Fishing Lakes (Suffolk), Crossways Business Park (Kent), Barford Lakes (Norfolk), and Willinghurst Fisheries (Surrey).
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Lodge Farm Fisheries, South Yorkshire.
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Curborough Fishery, Staffordshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Coppice Lane Pools, Staffordshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for The Hunstrete Fishery, Avon
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Knightsland Farm Lake, Essex
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Melton Ponds, Norfolk
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Ash Grove Lake, Derbyshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Kiverton Farm Fisheries, South Yorkshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Five House Farm Reservoir, Hertfordshire
- Added a revised oyster herpesvirus confirmed designation which covers Kent and Essex.
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Thorpe Lea Fishery, Surrey
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Fields Farm Fishery, Cheshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Portland Fishing Lakes, Nottinghamshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Jacobs Water, Nottinghamshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Bells Mill Fisheries, West Midlands
- Added designation for Manea Pit, Cambridgeshire
- Added confirmation note for Frisby Water Park, Leicestershire
- Added designation note for Packington Somers Fishery
- Added the confirmation for Cromwell Lake, Cambridgeshire
- Added confirmation details for Ferens Lake, East Yorkshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designations for Mallory Park Fishery, Leicestershire, and Hayfield Fishery, South Yorkshire
- Added KHV confirmed designation for Heron Pond, Nottinghamshire
- Added KHV confirmed designation for Corner House Farm Lake, Staffordshire
- Updated all confirmed designations for Oyster herpesvirus and Bonamia ostreae with a new condition.
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Fleetwood Reservoir, Lancashire
- Add KHV disease confirmed designations for Aston Park, South Yorkshire, and The Barns, Cornwall
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Albert Park Lake, North Yorkshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Bierley Woods Waters, West Yorkshire
- Added KHV confirmed designation for The Glebe Lakes, Leicestershire
- Removed KHV confirmed designation for Maidenhead Aquatics, Greater London
- Added KHV confirmed designations for Greater London and Lincolnshire
- CD03/2016 added
- CD02/2016
- CD01/2016 - site no longer under any official disease controls
- New KHV confirmed designation: Shuttleworth College Fish Farm, Bedfordshire
- Confirmed designations for KHV removed on Whitevane Pond, Jeagor Farm, Boat Shed Pool, Ferens Lake, Brocket Hall, Noak Hill Fishery, and The Duckery
- Added confirmed designation for Oyster herpesvirus at River Teign, Devon
- Revised Bonamia ostreae confirmed designations
- Added extension to Oyster Herpesvirus Confirmed Designation in Kent
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Ellis Lake Fishery, Essex. Added conditions to the confirmed designation for Marteilia.
- Added KHV disease confirmed designations for Lake Ross, Woodlands Fishery, and Bourne Farm Pond in Lincolnshire
- Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Thornborough Pond, Northumberland
- Added KHV confirmed designation for Washing Pool, Worcestershire
- Amended Oyster herpesvirus confirmed designation in Kent
- Added KHV confirmed designation for Railway Lakes, Cambridgeshire
- New KHV outbreak confirmed in West Yorkshire
- Ruddy Pond Lakes confirmed designation added.
- Added KHV designation for Morgans & Woodstock Ponds, Gwent
- Added confirmed designation for KHV at Bankend Fisheries, South Yorkshire
- Updated Oyster Herpesvirus confirmed designations for Poole Harbour, Dorset, and Whitstable Bay, Kent
- Removed River Crouch, Blackwater and Colne confirmed designation and replaced it with a single designation which also includes the River Roach.
- Removed KHV confirmed designations for Burton Farm Fisheries, Church Pond, Kingsdown Road Flash and Canvey Lake
- Removed confirmed designation for Abbey Waters, Norfolk
- Removed confirmed designations for Bradshaw Hall, Risby Park, Cuckoo Mere and Bee Fold Fishery.
- Removed confirmed designation for Aldercar Lane Fishery Lakes, Nottinghamshire, and Alcott Farm Fishery, Worcestershire
- Added new confirmed designation for KHV in Staffordshire
- Added confirmed designation for KHV in Wiltshire
- Added Wellow Dam KHV confirmed designation
- Updated Trinity Waters confirmed designation
- Added KHV confirmed designation
- Added two KHV confirmed designations for Essex
- Confirmed Designation added for Haddon Lakes, Cambridgeshire.
- New 'notice of confirmed designation' inserted under the Shellfish/Oyster Herpesvirus heading for the River Crouch.
- Added KHV confirmed designation
- Added KHV confirmed designation
- Added 3 KHV confirmed designations
- Added KHV confirmed designation
- Added confirmed designation for KHV
- Added KHV confirmed designation
- Added KHV confirmed designation
- Added Bonehill Mill Fishery Confirmed KHV Designation
- Confirmed designation added
- Added confirmed designation notice and map
- First published.