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: 20/04/2026
27/136 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. Bight of Foraness Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.96
  2. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 2.5
  3. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.45
  4. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 2.36
  5. Sian Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 2.35
  6. Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.98
  7. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.9
  8. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 1.8
  9. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.67
  10. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.55
  11. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.34
  12. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.31
  13. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 1.16
  14. Linga (Setterness) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.16
  15. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.03
  16. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 1
  17. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 1
  18. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 0.9
  19. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 0.9
  20. Ardintoul Mowi, Highland - 0.84
  21. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 0.83
  22. East Tarbert Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.73
  23. Hunda Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.68
  24. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.63
  25. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.56
  26. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.55
  27. Kyles Vuia Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.51