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: 15/06/2026
25/135 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. Setterness North (Bomlo) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.11
  2. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.8
  3. Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.7
  4. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.65
  5. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.23
  6. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 1.15
  7. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.12
  8. Reibinish Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.98
  9. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.89
  10. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 0.8
  11. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.76
  12. Carness Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.74
  13. Hunda Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.73
  14. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.7
  15. Ouseness Cooke, Orkney - 0.7
  16. Linga (Setterness) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.69
  17. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.67
  18. Burrastow Cooke, Shetland - 0.65
  19. Bight of Bellister, Dury Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.65
  20. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 0.59
  21. Noust Geo Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.58
  22. Shapinsay Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.57
  23. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.54
  24. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 0.53
  25. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 0.51