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: 24/11/2025
21/129 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. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 5.69
  2. East Tarbert Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 3.85
  3. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 3.4
  4. Gravir Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 3.01
  5. Poseidon Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3
  6. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 3
  7. Tabhaigh Mowi, Western Isles - 2.89
  8. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 2.64
  9. Cole Deep Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.87
  10. Clashnessie Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.8
  11. Poll Na Gille Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 1.58
  12. Caolas A Deas Mowi, Western Isles - 1.51
  13. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.48
  14. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 1.46
  15. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.45
  16. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 1.45
  17. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.3
  18. Fishnish Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.2
  19. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.05
  20. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 1.05
  21. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.04