There are 84 results relating to "Emamectin benzoate"
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19 March 2026
Salmon farming JP
They use ‘baths’ of antibiotics, pyrethroids, organophosphates and disinfectants including chlorine, hypochlorite, hydrogen peroxide, trichlorfon (Neguvon), deltamethrin, teflubenzeron, diflubenzeron, azamethipos, dichlorvos (Nuvan), emamectin benzoate, lufeneron, formalin, and, the most toxic insecticide on the plan...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
Scottish Sea Farms added that the use of emamectin benzoate has decreased because current permitted levels are ineffective as a treatment.
Last updated:
13 June 2025
BB20250616
*S6M-17931 Alex Rowley: Fish Farm Insecticide Impacting Wild Salmon—That the Parliament notes with concern the recent reporting that destruction of wild salmon by fish farms could be worse than feared, due to parasites becoming resistant to the insecticide emamectin benzoate, also known as Slice; acknowledges reported new research by Inland Fisheries Ireland, based on almost 20 years of tagging wild salmon, showing that young wild salmon passing coastal fish farms are increasingly falling prey to lice spilling out of pens, concluding that “Results of the analysis provide clear evidence of significantly reduced return of adult salmon linked to salmon lice infestation from marine salmon farms" and that "Data also suggests... the effects of lice from local salmon farms on wild stocks are underestimated (in previous studies)”; notes reports that emamectin benzoate can damage human DNA, and that the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has found it leaking from fish farm pens and harming sea life; recognises reports that, during a consultation in 2023, an immediate reduction in the use of emamectin benzoate was called for by bodies including the National Trust for Scotland and the Marine Conservation Society, but that Salmon Scotland urged the Scottish Ministers to delay fresh regulation and the Scottish Government decided in summer 2024 to allow the use of emamectin benzoate until 2028, and believes that, as a result of the latest research, which, it understands, suggests that the increasingly poor performance of emamectin benzoate is also now leaving wild salmon at risk of deadly lice infestations, the Scottish Government must immediately implement the new environmental quality standard on emamectin benzoate to protect wildlife and the reputation of Scottish salmon.
Last updated:
4 May 2023
Salmon Farming in Scotland Annex
It also calls on SEPA and the Scottish emamectin benzoate report and recommendation.
Official Report
Meeting date:
30 April 2009
Plenary, 30 Apr 2009
Sea Lice (Emamectin Benzoate) To ask the Scottish Government, in light of research from Chile, Canada, America and Norway showing that emamectin benzoate (SLICE) treatments to control sea lice on salmon are decreasingly effective, what...
Last updated:
11 November 2024
Salmon farming Roddie 8 November 2024
Regulatory changes take years in the making, are late and effective future action delayed by years (eg. lowering of the EQS for the pesticide emamectin benzoate, and the framework to minimise farmed and wild fish interactions, on both of which little action will affect existing farms for years to come).
Last updated:
17 January 2025
Follow-up inquiry into salmon farming in Scotland
Scottish Sea Farms added that the use of emamectin benzoate has decreased because current permitted levels are ineffective as a treatment. 172.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 August 2014
S4W-22200
Information regarding chemical usage on salmon farms is publically available on the Scotland’s Aquaculture website http://aquaculture.scotland.gov.uk/default.aspx and also on the Scottish Pollutant Release Inventory (SPRI) website: http://apps.sepa.org.uk/spripa/Search/Options.aspx Year Antifoulant Anaesthetic Copper Oxide (grams) Ethyl-aminobenzoate (grams) 2-Phenoxyethanol (Litres) Tricaine Methyl Sulphonate (grams) 2-Propanone (litres) 2003 25883650 21701.7 28.0 9402.0 127.4 2004 40094390 25360.5 6.9 22796.4 374.2 2005 61088790 11966.0 7.1 22697.7 182.3 2006 62297280 7015.0 0.0 41824.3 120.3 2007 64873980 0.0 55.0 60141.7 0.0 2008 91546860 0.0 0.0 48583.5 0.0 2009 101524315 239050.0 7.7 70787.0 23.0 2010 90987640 129.0 4.2 78775.1 1011.8 2011 130751740 1600.0 0.0 80653.4 2.0 2012 144357760 3800.0 0.0 90578.4 215.0 2013 117233920 500.0 0.0 88099.7 5.0 Year Antimicrobial Antihelminthic Disinfectant Amoxycillin Trihydrate (grams) Oxytetra-cycline (grams) Florfenicol (grams) Hydrogen Peroxide (litres) Fenbendazole (grams) Iodine (grams) 1-Alkyl Diazapentane (litres) Sodium Hypochlorite (litres) 2003 0.0 662840 0 19275 0.0 170137.0 10.1 290.7 2004 0.0 38000 6000 14600 13056 163721.2 6.5 575.3 2005 0.0 1686053 1857 0 400 113881.7 9.2 281.8 2006 55200 5282170 32000 0 0.0 105548.3 9.7 151.6 2007 0.0 1532286 21000 0 19593 100554.2 13.4 142.0 2008 0.0 753620 9000 28000 0.0 115805.1 11.8 267.4 2009 165000 1952100 1200 0 0.0 106572.5 9.6 308.2 2010 0.0 223250 0.0 78512 0.0 96078.5 15.8 227.2 2011 0.0 242000 0.0 420109 0.0 113907.0 9.8 294.0 2012 0.0 834733 2400 1877598 358 120245.0 15.8 400.0 2013 0.0 168382 32500 7134201 0.0 113629.0 15.4 517.0 Year Sealice treatment Cypermethrin (grams) Azamethiphos (grams) Teflubenzuron (grams) Emamectin...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 April 2009
S3O-06708
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of research from Chile, Canada, America and Norway showing that emamectin benzoate (SLICE) treatments to control sea lice on salmon are decreasingly effective, what actions it will take and what guidance is being considered.
Official Report
Meeting date:
2 October 2024
Rural Affairs and Islands Committee 02 October 2024
Typically, we would use Slice or emamectin benzoate in the early stage of the cycle—say, up to 1kg of size.
