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: 26/01/2026
6/125 sites counting over the 1 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. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 2.47
  2. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 2.03
  3. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.99
  4. Gometra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.62
  5. Olna South Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.33
  6. Gravir Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.05