High Lice

Code of Good Practice suggests between February and June the threshold is lowered from an average of 1 to 0.5 adult female lice per fish during this period.
These are the sites breaching those guidelines.
Click here to see the lice counts for all other sites.

Week Beginning: 10/08/2026
23/133 sites counting over the 0.5 threshold.

Bakkafrost Scotland Cooke Aquaculture Scotland Ltd Kames Fish Farming Ltd Landcatch Natural Selection Ltd Loch Duart Ltd Mowi Scotland Ltd Organic Sea Harvest Ltd Scottish Sea Farms Ltd Wester Ross Fisheries Ltd

Farms breaching lice guidelines:

  1. Nevis A Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 3.78
  2. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 3.67
  3. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.97
  4. Ouseness Cooke, Orkney - 1.88
  5. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.88
  6. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.78
  7. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.6
  8. Nevis B Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.5
  9. Carness Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.45
  10. Loch Duich Mowi, Highland - 1.32
  11. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.1
  12. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.02
  13. Nevis C (Ardintigh) Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1
  14. Shapinsay Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.98
  15. Bay of Vady Cooke, Orkney - 0.9
  16. Vestness Cooke, Orkney - 0.89
  17. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 0.85
  18. Puldrite Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.8
  19. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.7
  20. Scalpay Mowi, Highland - 0.67
  21. Shuna SW (Rubh'an Trilleachain) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.64
  22. Glenan Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.62
  23. Quanterness Cooke, Orkney - 0.6