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: 07/09/2026
27/127 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. Loch Duich Mowi, Highland - 2.92
  2. Loch Alsh (Sron) Mowi, Highland - 2.8
  3. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.59
  4. Bight of Bellister, Dury Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.05
  5. Strondoir Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.94
  6. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.9
  7. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.87
  8. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 1.8
  9. Loch Laxford Loch Duart, Highland - 1.76
  10. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.6
  11. Shapinsay Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.6
  12. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.57
  13. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 1.4
  14. Walters (East Lismore) Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.24
  15. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 0.95
  16. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.9
  17. Gob a Bharra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.84
  18. Rubha Stillaig Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.81
  19. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.8
  20. Ardcastle Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.78
  21. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 0.68
  22. Dunstaffnage Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.66
  23. Scalpay Mowi, Highland - 0.63
  24. Bring Head Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.62
  25. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 0.6
  26. Bay of Vady Cooke, Orkney - 0.59
  27. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.55