{"id":592905,"date":"2026-08-14T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:00:11","slug":"could-maines-new-isa-rules-change-how-salmon-farms-respond-to-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/592905\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Maine\u2019s new ISA rules change how salmon farms respond to outbreaks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IBOF-Dark-Harbour-Conservation-Site-06-07-2016-DJI00626-Cooke.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"w-full aspect-[16\/9] object-cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cooke&#8217;s Dark Harbour site in Maine. Photo: Cooke Aquaculture<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                    Maine is proposing changes to its infectious salmon anaemia rules that would end the automatic presumption that farms should be depopulated following detection of pathogenic ISA virus.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed rules follow the expiry in April of the US Department of Agriculture&#8217;s voluntary ISA control programme, which had provided the framework for managing the disease in Maine&#8217;s Atlantic salmon sector.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new state regime, detection of HPR-deleted ISAV would not by itself trigger an order to cull a farm. Maine would retain the authority to require depopulation where fish show clinical disease and the operator has failed to take appropriate action.<\/p>\n<p>The state said both HPR0 and HPR-deleted strains of the virus are considered endemic in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were proposed on Wednesday as Maine moves to replace the federal programme with its own disease-control framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooke&#8217;s Dark Harbour site in Maine. Photo: Cooke Aquaculture Maine is proposing changes to its infectious salmon anaemia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-592905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}