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: 29/06/2026
26/134 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. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.13
  2. Hunda Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.98
  3. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.96
  4. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.93
  5. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.67
  6. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.63
  7. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.26
  8. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.22
  9. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.2
  10. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 1.07
  11. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 0.96
  12. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 0.96
  13. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.94
  14. Ouseness Cooke, Orkney - 0.88
  15. Fara West Cooke, Orkney - 0.87
  16. Shapinsay Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.82
  17. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.8
  18. Vuia Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.8
  19. Burrastow Cooke, Shetland - 0.66
  20. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 0.66
  21. Bight of Bellister, Dury Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.62
  22. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 0.62
  23. Puldrite Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.6
  24. Kingairloch Mowi, Highland - 0.56
  25. Nevis A Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.56
  26. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 0.51