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: 12/01/2026
25/124 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. Gometra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 5.03
  2. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 4.57
  3. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 4.27
  4. Sian Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 3.65
  5. Caolas A Deas Mowi, Western Isles - 3.44
  6. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 3.22
  7. Setterness North (Bomlo) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.02
  8. East Tarbert Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 2.18
  9. Trilleachan Mor Mowi, Western Isles - 2.01
  10. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.96
  11. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.95
  12. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 1.8
  13. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 1.79
  14. Fishnish Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.77
  15. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.6
  16. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.55
  17. Colonsay Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 1.5
  18. Seaforth Mowi, Western Isles - 1.45
  19. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 1.37
  20. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 1.33
  21. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.32
  22. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.29
  23. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 1.18
  24. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 1.14
  25. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.1