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: 09/06/2025
30/137 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 Leven (1) Mowi, Highland - 6.25
  2. Lismore West Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 2.5
  3. Shuna Point Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 2.35
  4. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 2.12
  5. Gob a Bharra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.83
  6. Quarry Point Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.8
  7. Bring Head Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.75
  8. Pegal Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.6
  9. Fishnish (A) Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.53
  10. Glenan Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.53
  11. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.48
  12. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 1.28
  13. Loch Snizort East Loch Duart, Highland - 1.23
  14. West of Burwick Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.21
  15. Clashnessie Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.12
  16. Holms Geo Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.1
  17. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.01
  18. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.94
  19. Loch Alsh (Sron) Mowi, Highland - 0.8
  20. Langa Isle (East) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.76
  21. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.74
  22. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 0.73
  23. Easter Score Holms Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.63
  24. West Strome Bakkafrost, Highland - 0.61
  25. Noust Geo Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.57
  26. Rubha Stillaig Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.56
  27. Lober Rock (SMH) Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.56
  28. Portree Outer Bakkafrost, Highland - 0.54
  29. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 0.53
  30. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.52