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: 21/09/2026
30/110 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 - 5.05
  2. Bight of Bellister, Dury Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.38
  3. Loch Laxford Loch Duart, Highland - 1.98
  4. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.86
  5. Shapinsay Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.81
  6. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.67
  7. Nevis B Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.62
  8. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.6
  9. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.6
  10. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.6
  11. Dunstaffnage Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.45
  12. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 1.4
  13. Loch Carnan Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.38
  14. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.21
  15. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.13
  16. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 1.13
  17. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 1.1
  18. Poll Na Gille Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 0.95
  19. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.89
  20. Nevis A Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.88
  21. Ouseness Cooke, Orkney - 0.8
  22. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 0.75
  23. Linnhe Mowi, Highland - 0.74
  24. Vestness Cooke, Orkney - 0.73
  25. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.72
  26. Swarta Skerry, Dury Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.7
  27. North Kilbrannan Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 0.63
  28. Bring Head Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.6
  29. Setterness North (Bomlo) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.56
  30. North Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.53