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: 13/07/2026
19/128 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. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 3.96
  2. Ouseness Cooke, Orkney - 1.82
  3. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.73
  4. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 1.65
  5. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.63
  6. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.5
  7. Gob na Hoe Loch Duart, Highland - 1.19
  8. Fara West Cooke, Orkney - 1.13
  9. Puldrite Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.1
  10. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.08
  11. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 0.98
  12. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 0.95
  13. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.83
  14. Leinish Loch Duart, Highland - 0.8
  15. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.6
  16. Hunda Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.6
  17. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 0.56
  18. Lober Rock (SMH) Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.56
  19. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.53