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: 18/05/2026
26/138 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. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 2.95
  2. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 2.52
  3. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 1.9
  4. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.88
  5. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 1.86
  6. Linga (Setterness) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.81
  7. Poseidon Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.7
  8. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.58
  9. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.55
  10. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.48
  11. Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.46
  12. Leinish Loch Duart, Highland - 1.43
  13. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 1.4
  14. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.31
  15. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.3
  16. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 1.08
  17. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.02
  18. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1
  19. Vuia Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1
  20. Ouseness Cooke, Orkney - 0.94
  21. Gob na Hoe Loch Duart, Highland - 0.93
  22. Fara West Cooke, Orkney - 0.73
  23. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.67
  24. Swarta Skerry, Dury Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.63
  25. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 0.52
  26. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 0.52