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: 22/09/2025
27/127 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 - 10.92
  2. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 7.52
  3. East Tarbert Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 5.35
  4. East of Papa Little Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 4.12
  5. West of Burwick Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.5
  6. West Strome Bakkafrost, Highland - 3.11
  7. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 2.28
  8. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 2.17
  9. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 2.14
  10. Loch Harport Mowi, Highland - 1.95
  11. Clashnessie Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.92
  12. Olna South Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.91
  13. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.58
  14. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.38
  15. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 1.34
  16. Caolas A Deas Mowi, Western Isles - 1.34
  17. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 1.32
  18. Ardmair Mowi, Highland - 1.25
  19. Fishnish Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.25
  20. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 1.2
  21. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.2
  22. Wick of Belmont Cooke, Shetland - 1.18
  23. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.12
  24. Poll Na Gille Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 1.09
  25. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.08
  26. Cairidh Mowi, Highland - 1.03
  27. Tabhaigh Mowi, Western Isles - 1.02