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: 28/07/2025
41/125 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. Gob a Bharra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 4.1
  2. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 4.08
  3. Lismore West Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 3.52
  4. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 3.07
  5. Loch Leven (1) Mowi, Highland - 2.61
  6. Kishorn B (North) Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 2.52
  7. West Strome Bakkafrost, Highland - 2.45
  8. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 2.12
  9. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.93
  10. Easter Score Holms Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.7
  11. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.7
  12. Kishorn West Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.65
  13. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.53
  14. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.44
  15. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.42
  16. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.36
  17. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 1.31
  18. Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.29
  19. Corry Farm Mowi, Highland - 1.15
  20. Maaey Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.14
  21. Sgeir Dughall Bakkafrost, Highland - 1.11
  22. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 1.1
  23. Loch Snizort East Loch Duart, Highland - 1.09
  24. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.08
  25. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 1
  26. Mill Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.99
  27. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 0.94
  28. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.83
  29. Bring Head Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.73
  30. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 0.7
  31. Portree Bakkafrost, Highland - 0.69
  32. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.67
  33. West of Burwick Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.66
  34. Torridon Mowi, Highland - 0.63
  35. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.61
  36. Carness Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.6
  37. Bay of Holland Cooke, Orkney - 0.6
  38. Portree Outer Bakkafrost, Highland - 0.59
  39. Tanera Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.55
  40. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.54
  41. Olna South Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.53