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: 04/05/2026
23/136 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. Linga (Setterness) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.94
  2. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 2.89
  3. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 2.48
  4. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.32
  5. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 2.23
  6. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.9
  7. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.89
  8. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.82
  9. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 1.66
  10. Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.42
  11. Leinish Loch Duart, Highland - 1.31
  12. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 1.17
  13. Ardintoul Mowi, Highland - 1.15
  14. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 1.15
  15. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 1.05
  16. Fara West Cooke, Orkney - 0.88
  17. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.87
  18. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.75
  19. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.72
  20. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 0.65
  21. Kerrera B Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.63
  22. Eughlam Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.57
  23. Scadabay Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.54