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: 19/10/2026
30/129 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:
- Loch Duich Mowi, Highland - 10.75
- Ardyne Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 5.74
- Lismore West Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 3.42
- Ardcastle Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 2.98
- Glenan Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 2.33
- Swarta Skerry, Dury Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.23
- Strondoir Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 2.07
- Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.91
- Dunstaffnage Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.87
- Rubha Stillaig Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.52
- Ardgaddan Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.44
- Seaforth Mowi, Western Isles - 1.43
- Maaey Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.43
- Nevis A Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.42
- Bagh Dail Nan Cean Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 1.41
- Gob a Bharra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.4
- Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.29
- Meall Mhor Loch Fyne Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.21
- Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.2
- Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.12
- Setterness North (Bomlo) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.08
- Shuna Point Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.08
- Loch Laxford Loch Duart, Highland - 1.07
- Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1
- Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.92
- North Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.91
- Poll Na Gille Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 0.73
- Shapinsay Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.73
- Gorsten Mowi, Highland - 0.56
- Ness of Copister Cooke, Shetland - 0.52