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: 09/03/2026
23/134 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. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 1.97
  2. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 1.88
  3. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 1.84
  4. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 1.7
  5. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.68
  6. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.46
  7. Sian Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.44
  8. Vuia Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.19
  9. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.13
  10. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 1.12
  11. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 1.08
  12. Eughlam Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.03
  13. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1
  14. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.98
  15. Camas Glas Mowi, Highland - 0.93
  16. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 0.89
  17. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.85
  18. Loch Duich Mowi, Highland - 0.84
  19. Olna South Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.78
  20. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.78
  21. Fara West Cooke, Orkney - 0.67
  22. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.63
  23. East Tarbert Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.55