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: 27/07/2026
14/130 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. Lober Rock (SMH) Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 2.2
  2. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.93
  3. Ouseness Cooke, Orkney - 1.53
  4. Nevis A Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.48
  5. Pegal Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.22
  6. Hunda Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.19
  7. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.18
  8. Gob na Hoe Loch Duart, Highland - 1.03
  9. Fara West Cooke, Orkney - 0.75
  10. Nevis B Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.74
  11. Puldrite Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.7
  12. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 0.7
  13. Carness Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.57
  14. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 0.53