Guidance

Prevent fish or shellfish diseases

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, and Environment Agency
• Part of: Aquatic animal health and movements guides, Fisheries and rod licensing, and Wildlife and habitat conservation
• Published: 16 May 2014
• Last updated: 20 July 2017, see all updates
• Applies to: England and Wales

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

• keep health records using the Finfish biosecurity logbook (PDF, 123KB, 7 pages)

• keep medicine records using the Aquatic animal medicine record book (PDF, 254KB, 52 pages)

• follow a biosecurity measures plan:

  • Shellfish biosecurity measures plan (PDF, 500KB, 28 pages)

  • Finfish biosecurity measures plan (PDF, 325KB, 32 pages)

  • Importer biosecurity measures plan (PDF, 244KB, 36 pages)

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

• Warwickshire: Arden Lakes (PDF, 416KB, 2 pages)

• East Sussex: Swanborough Fishing Lakes (PDF, 657KB, 3 pages)

Maps of areas with controls in place to limit the spread of koi herpesvirus (KHV):

2016

• Avon: The Hunstrete Fishery (PDF, 476KB, 3 pages)

• Cambridgeshire: Cromwell Lake (PDF, 296KB, 3 pages)

• Cambridgeshire: Manea Pit (PDF, 387KB, 3 pages)

• Cheshire: Fields Farm Fishery (PDF, 391KB, 3 pages)

• Cornwall: The Barns (PDF, 384KB, 3 pages)

• Derbyshire: Ash Grove Lake (PDF, 435KB, 3 pages)

• East Yorkshire: Ferens Lake (PDF, 635KB, 3 pages)

• Essex: Knightsland Farm Lake (PDF, 374KB, 3 pages)

• Hereford & Worcs: Severn Sport & Leisure, Larford Lakes (PDF, 465KB, 3 pages)

• Hereford & Worcestershire: Brockamin Fisheries (PDF, 473KB, 3 pages)

• Hertfordshire: Five House Farm Reservoir (PDF, 355KB, 3 pages)

• Lancashire: Fleetwood Reservoir (PDF, 647KB, 3 pages)

• Leicestershire: Mallory Park Fishery (PDF, 441KB, 3 pages)

• Leicestershire: Frisby Water Park (PDF, 449KB, 3 pages)

• Leicestershire: The Glebe Lakes (PDF, 332KB, 3 pages)

• Lincolnshire: Bain Valley Fisheries (PDF, 593KB, 3 pages)

• Norfolk: Melton Ponds (PDF, 413KB, 3 pages)

• North Yorkshire: Albert Park Lake (PDF, 578KB, 3 pages)

• Nottinghamshire: Heron Pond (PDF, 449KB, 3 pages)

• Nottinghamshire: Jacobs Water (PDF, 334KB, 3 pages)

• Nottinghamshire: Portland Fishing Lakes (PDF, 320KB, 3 pages)

• South Yorkshire: Aston Park (PDF, 372KB, 3 pages)

• South Yorkshire: Hayfield Fishery (PDF, 515KB, 3 pages)

• South Yorkshire: Kiverton Farm Fisheries (PDF, 415KB, 3 pages)

• South Yorkshire: Lodge Farm Fisheries (PDF, 416KB, 3 pages)

• Staffordshire: Coppice Lane Pools (PDF, 438KB, 3 pages)

• Staffordshire: Corner House Farm Lake (PDF, 400KB, 3 pages)

• Staffordshire: Curborough Fishery (PDF, 455KB, 3 pages)

• Surrey: Thorpe Lea Fishery (PDF, 580KB, 3 pages)

• West Midlands: Bells Mill Fisheries (PDF, 451KB, 3 pages)

• West Midlands: Packington Somers Fishery (PDF, 662KB, 3 pages)

• West Yorkshire: Bierley Woods Waters (PDF, 435KB, 4 pages)

2015

• Cambridgeshire: Railway Lakes (PDF, 422KB, 3 pages)

• Cheshire: Ruddy Pond Lakes (PDF, 391KB, 3 pages)

• Essex: Ellis Lake Fishery (PDF, 328KB, 3 pages)

• Gwent: Morgans & Woodstock Ponds (PDF, 459KB, 3 pages)

• Lincolnshire: Bourne Farm Pond (PDF, 373KB, 3 pages)

• Lincolnshire: Lake Ross (PDF, 404KB, 3 pages)

• Lincolnshire: Woodlands Fishery (PDF, 399KB, 3 pages)

• Northumberland: Thornborough Pond (PDF, 290KB, 3 pages)

• South Yorkshire: Bankend Fisheries (PDF, 404KB, 3 pages)

• West Yorkshire: Kippax Polo Pond (PDF, 425KB, 3 pages)

• Worcestershire: Washing Pool (PDF, 303KB, 3 pages)

2014

• Cambridgeshire: Haddon Lakes (PDF, 359KB, 3 pages)

• Essex: Great Oakley Fisheries (PDF, 287KB, 3 pages)

• Essex: Pea Lane Fishery (PDF, 285KB, 3 pages)

• Essex: Puddledock Farm Fisheries (PDF, 305KB, 3 pages)

• Essex: Slough House Lake (PDF, 270KB, 3 pages)

• Essex: Valence Moat (PDF, 317KB, 3 pages)

• Gloucestershire: Ford House Farm Fishery (PDF, 648KB, 3 pages)

• Gloucestershire: Wickwater Lakes (PDF, 417KB, 3 pages)

• Hampshire: Longbridge Fishery (PDF, 282KB, 3 pages)

• Hampshire: Stoneham Lakes (PDF, 333KB, 3 pages)

• Norfolk: Oakwood Park Lakes (PDF, 299KB, 3 pages)

• Nottinghamshire: Goosedale Fisheries and Leisure (PDF, 482KB, 3 pages)

• Nottinghamshire: Wellow Dam (PDF, 324KB, 3 pages)

• Somerset: Avalon Fishery (PDF, 320KB, 3 pages)

• Somerset: Plantations Lakes (PDF, 320KB, 3 pages)

• Somerset: Trinity Waters (PDF, 804KB, 3 pages)

• South Yorkshire: Hoyle Mill Dam (PDF, 303KB, 3 pages)

• Staffordshire: Baden Hall Fishery (PDF, 982KB, 3 pages)

• Staffordshire: Bonehill Mill Fishery (PDF, 394KB, 3 pages)

• Staffordshire: Hanchurch Fisheries (PDF, 334KB, 3 pages)

• West Sussex: Hurston Lane Fishery (PDF, 320KB, 3 pages)

• West Sussex: Woodpeckers Fishing Lakes (PDF, 346KB, 3 pages)

• Wiltshire: Tockenham Reservoir (PDF, 322KB, 3 pages)

2013

• Buckinghamshire: Billet Lane Lake (PDF, 947KB, 3 pages)

• Cambridgeshire: Townsend Lakes Fishery (PDF, 949KB, 3 pages)

• Cambridgeshire: Leland Water (PDF, 674KB, 3 pages)

• Derbyshire: Stoppo's pool (PDF, 640KB, 3 pages)

• East Yorkshire: Wansford Trout and Coarse Fishery (PDF, 648KB, 3 pages)

• Essex: Crondon Park Golf Club Lakes (PDF, 1.32MB, 3 pages)

• Leicestershire: Park Hill golf course (PDF, 1.15MB, 3 pages)

• Lincolnshire: Blyton Ponds Holiday Park (PDF, 652KB, 3 pages)

• Lincolnshire: Duck ponds (PDF, 665KB, 3 pages)

• Nottinghamshire: Bilsthorpe Fisheries (PDF, 662KB, 3 pages)

• Somerset: Acorn Carp Fishery (PDF, 915KB, 3 pages)

• South Yorkshire: Woodhouse Grange Fishery (PDF, 811KB, 3 pages)

• Suffolk: Carlton Meres Country Park Lakes (PDF, 690KB, 3 pages)

• West Midlands: Lavender Hall Fishery complex (PDF, 931KB, 3 pages)

• West Sussex: Furnace Pond (PDF, 681KB, 3 pages)

2010

• Greater London: Dell Fishery (PDF, 279KB, 1 page)

2009

• Norfolk: Colton and Greenacre Reservoir (PDF, 300KB, 1 page)

• West Sussex: Passies Ponds Fishery Lakes (PDF, 338KB, 1 page)

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

• Anglesey and Caernarfonshire (PDF, 1.13MB, 3 pages)

• Cornwall and Devon (PDF, 1020KB, 3 pages)

• Dorset, Hampshire and Sussex (PDF, 1.16MB, 3 pages)

• Kent and Essex (PDF, 1.46MB, 3 pages)

• Pembrokeshire (PDF, 1.01MB, 3 pages)

Oyster herpesvirus

• Essex and Kent (PDF, 613KB, 3 pages)

• Poole Harbour Dorset (PDF, 4.09MB, 3 pages)

• River Teign, Devon (PDF, 1.99MB, 3 pages)

Marteilia refringens

• River Tamar, Cornwall and Devon (PDF, 385KB, 4 pages)

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

Document information

Published: 16 May 2014

Updated: 20 July 2017

+ full page history

1. 20 July 2017 Added East Sussed: Swanborough Fishing Lake
2. 27 April 2017 Added details for SVC at Arden Lakes, Warwickshire
3. 9 December 2016 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).
4. 18 November 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Lodge Farm Fisheries, South Yorkshire.
5. 4 November 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Curborough Fishery, Staffordshire
6. 29 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Coppice Lane Pools, Staffordshire
7. 28 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for The Hunstrete Fishery, Avon
8. 27 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Knightsland Farm Lake, Essex
9. 25 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Melton Ponds, Norfolk
10. 20 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Ash Grove Lake, Derbyshire
11. 12 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Kiverton Farm Fisheries, South Yorkshire
12. 11 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Five House Farm Reservoir, Hertfordshire
13. 11 October 2016 Added a revised oyster herpesvirus confirmed designation which covers Kent and Essex.
14. 7 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Thorpe Lea Fishery, Surrey
15. 5 October 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Fields Farm Fishery, Cheshire
16. 30 September 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Portland Fishing Lakes, Nottinghamshire
17. 22 September 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Jacobs Water, Nottinghamshire
18. 21 September 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Bells Mill Fisheries, West Midlands
19. 19 September 2016 Added designation for Manea Pit, Cambridgeshire
20. 16 September 2016 Added confirmation note for Frisby Water Park, Leicestershire
21. 15 September 2016 Added designation note for Packington Somers Fishery
22. 9 September 2016 Added the confirmation for Cromwell Lake, Cambridgeshire
23. 6 September 2016 Added confirmation details for Ferens Lake, East Yorkshire
24. 2 September 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designations for Mallory Park Fishery, Leicestershire, and Hayfield Fishery, South Yorkshire
25. 19 August 2016 Added KHV confirmed designation for Heron Pond, Nottinghamshire
26. 18 August 2016 Added KHV confirmed designation for Corner House Farm Lake, Staffordshire
27. 16 August 2016 Updated all confirmed designations for Oyster herpesvirus and Bonamia ostreae with a new condition.
28. 9 August 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Fleetwood Reservoir, Lancashire
29. 4 August 2016 Add KHV disease confirmed designations for Aston Park, South Yorkshire, and The Barns, Cornwall
30. 2 August 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Albert Park Lake, North Yorkshire
31. 29 July 2016 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Bierley Woods Waters, West Yorkshire
32. 22 July 2016 Added KHV confirmed designation for The Glebe Lakes, Leicestershire
33. 18 July 2016 Removed KHV confirmed designation for Maidenhead Aquatics, Greater London
34. 14 July 2016 Added KHV confirmed designations for Greater London and Lincolnshire
35. 8 July 2016 CD03/2016 added
36. 7 July 2016 CD02/2016
37. 7 July 2016 CD01/2016 - site no longer under any official disease controls
38. 24 June 2016 New KHV confirmed designation: Shuttleworth College Fish Farm, Bedfordshire
39. 4 January 2016 Confirmed designations for KHV removed on Whitevane Pond, Jeagor Farm, Boat Shed Pool, Ferens Lake, Brocket Hall, Noak Hill Fishery, and The Duckery
40. 24 November 2015 Added confirmed designation for Oyster herpesvirus at River Teign, Devon
41. 26 October 2015 Revised Bonamia ostreae confirmed designations
42. 15 October 2015 Added extension to Oyster Herpesvirus Confirmed Designation in Kent
43. 8 October 2015 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Ellis Lake Fishery, Essex. Added conditions to the confirmed designation for Marteilia.
44. 28 September 2015 Added KHV disease confirmed designations for Lake Ross, Woodlands Fishery, and Bourne Farm Pond in Lincolnshire
45. 16 September 2015 Added KHV disease confirmed designation for Thornborough Pond, Northumberland
46. 3 September 2015 Added KHV confirmed designation for Washing Pool, Worcestershire
47. 1 September 2015 Amended Oyster herpesvirus confirmed designation in Kent
48. 24 August 2015 Added KHV confirmed designation for Railway Lakes, Cambridgeshire
49. 13 August 2015 New KHV outbreak confirmed in West Yorkshire
50. 13 August 2015 Ruddy Pond Lakes confirmed designation added.
51. 7 August 2015 Added KHV designation for Morgans & Woodstock Ponds, Gwent
52. 6 August 2015 Added confirmed designation for KHV at Bankend Fisheries, South Yorkshire
53. 29 July 2015 Updated Oyster Herpesvirus confirmed designations for Poole Harbour, Dorset, and Whitstable Bay, Kent
54. 22 July 2015 Removed River Crouch, Blackwater and Colne confirmed designation and replaced it with a single designation which also includes the River Roach.
55. 9 April 2015 Removed KHV confirmed designations for Burton Farm Fisheries, Church Pond, Kingsdown Road Flash and Canvey Lake
56. 8 December 2014 Removed confirmed designation for Abbey Waters, Norfolk
57. 2 December 2014 Removed confirmed designations for Bradshaw Hall, Risby Park, Cuckoo Mere and Bee Fold Fishery.
58. 1 December 2014 Removed confirmed designation for Aldercar Lane Fishery Lakes, Nottinghamshire, and Alcott Farm Fishery, Worcestershire
59. 27 October 2014 Added new confirmed designation for KHV in Staffordshire
60. 2 October 2014 Added confirmed designation for KHV in Wiltshire
61. 18 September 2014 Added Wellow Dam KHV confirmed designation
62. 3 September 2014 Updated Trinity Waters confirmed designation
63. 2 September 2014 Added KHV confirmed designation
64. 1 September 2014 Added two KHV confirmed designations for Essex
65. 28 August 2014 Confirmed Designation added for Haddon Lakes, Cambridgeshire.
66. 20 August 2014 New 'notice of confirmed designation' inserted under the Shellfish/Oyster Herpesvirus heading for the River Crouch.
67. 15 August 2014 Added KHV confirmed designation
68. 12 August 2014 Added KHV confirmed designation
69. 11 August 2014 Added 3 KHV confirmed designations
70. 7 August 2014 Added KHV confirmed designation
71. 6 August 2014 Added confirmed designation for KHV
72. 1 August 2014 Added KHV confirmed designation
73. 30 July 2014 Added KHV confirmed designation
74. 25 July 2014 Added Bonehill Mill Fishery Confirmed KHV Designation
75. 11 July 2014 Confirmed designation added
76. 10 July 2014 Added confirmed designation notice and map
77. 16 May 2014 First published.

From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science Environment Agency

Part of: Aquatic animal health and movements guides Fisheries and rod licensing Wildlife and habitat conservation

Related guides: Report serious fish or shellfish diseases