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: 24/08/2026
23/131 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. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 2.2
  2. Loch Duich Mowi, Highland - 2.15
  3. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.9
  4. Scalpay Mowi, Highland - 1.55
  5. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 1.41
  6. Meall Mhor Loch Fyne Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.38
  7. Shapinsay Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.28
  8. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.15
  9. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.08
  10. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1
  11. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 0.84
  12. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 0.78
  13. Shuna SW (Rubh'an Trilleachain) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.78
  14. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.76
  15. Bring Head Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.74
  16. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 0.7
  17. Loch Laxford Loch Duart, Highland - 0.66
  18. Glenan Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.66
  19. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 0.63
  20. Dunstaffnage Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.61
  21. Bight of Bellister, Dury Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.58
  22. Eughlam Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.56
  23. Rubha Stillaig Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.55