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: 05/10/2026
39/130 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. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 4.79
  2. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.05
  3. Scalpay Mowi, Highland - 2.44
  4. Poseidon Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.25
  5. Seaforth Mowi, Western Isles - 2
  6. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.8
  7. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.7
  8. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.5
  9. Loch Carnan Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.48
  10. Linnhe Mowi, Highland - 1.45
  11. Shapinsay Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.38
  12. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.23
  13. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 1.18
  14. Glenan Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.14
  15. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 1.14
  16. Ardgaddan Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.01
  17. Gob a Bharra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.99
  18. Quarry Point Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.99
  19. Rubha Stillaig Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.98
  20. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.95
  21. Strondoir Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.92
  22. Meall Mhor Loch Fyne Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.91
  23. Ardyne Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.9
  24. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 0.9
  25. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.89
  26. Maaey Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.89
  27. Ardcastle Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.86
  28. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 0.82
  29. North Kilbrannan Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 0.8
  30. North Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.76
  31. Eughlam Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.75
  32. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 0.71
  33. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.7
  34. Poll Na Gille Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 0.7
  35. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 0.67
  36. Lismore West Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.6
  37. Nevis B Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.56
  38. Vestness Cooke, Orkney - 0.55
  39. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.51