Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the criteria applied for the award of organic status to salmon farms. [39040/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The production of organic salmon from the marine resource is governed by the requirements of EU Council Regulation (EC) No. 834/2007 (as amended) and related applicable regulations.

The key criteria which must be observed in the production methodology include the following:

- organically certified juvenile fish

- organically certified feeding stuffs

- the maintenance of a lower than conventional stocking density within the marine containment systems

- certain limitations on the type and frequency of use of approved veterinary medicines (prescribed and administered under the control of a veterinary surgeon)

- the packing and handling of the harvested fish in approved premises.