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: 03/11/2025
27/124 sites counting over the 1 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. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 8.98
  2. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 8.88
  3. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 5.98
  4. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 3.64
  5. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 2.9
  6. Wick of Belmont Cooke, Shetland - 2.8
  7. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 2.61
  8. Tabhaigh Mowi, Western Isles - 2.47
  9. Caolas A Deas Mowi, Western Isles - 2.41
  10. Mill Bay Cooke, Orkney - 2.4
  11. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 2.2
  12. Fishnish Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 2.03
  13. Poseidon Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.88
  14. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 1.8
  15. West Strome Bakkafrost, Highland - 1.77
  16. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.7
  17. Shuna SW (Rubh'an Trilleachain) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.67
  18. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.49
  19. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.41
  20. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.37
  21. East Tarbert Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.21
  22. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.15
  23. Sian Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.15
  24. North Shore Mowi, Western Isles - 1.15
  25. Olna South Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.13
  26. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.05
  27. Bay of Holland Cooke, Orkney - 1.03