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: 21/07/2025
33/126 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. Langa Isle (East) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.53
  2. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 3.2
  3. Cole Deep Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3
  4. Gob a Bharra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 2.79
  5. Noust Geo Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 2.44
  6. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.98
  7. Clashnessie Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.95
  8. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.9
  9. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.65
  10. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.61
  11. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.6
  12. Fara West Cooke, Orkney - 1.43
  13. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.36
  14. West Strome Bakkafrost, Highland - 1.36
  15. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 1.2
  16. Loch Snizort East Loch Duart, Highland - 1.17
  17. Sgeir Dughall Bakkafrost, Highland - 1.04
  18. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.98
  19. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.97
  20. Lismore West Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.94
  21. Trilleachan Mor Mowi, Western Isles - 0.92
  22. East of Papa Little Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.88
  23. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 0.76
  24. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 0.73
  25. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.73
  26. Kishorn B (North) Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.73
  27. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 0.71
  28. Easter Score Holms Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.7
  29. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.67
  30. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.66
  31. West of Burwick Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.66
  32. Portree Bakkafrost, Highland - 0.54
  33. Bring Head Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.52