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: 19/05/2025
30/143 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. Shuna Point Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 3.85
  2. Kerrera B Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 3.5
  3. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 2.47
  4. Lismore West Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 2.29
  5. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 2.15
  6. Bring Head Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.98
  7. Gletness Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.8
  8. Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.64
  9. Eilean Grianain Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 1.63
  10. Lober Rock (SMH) Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.63
  11. Fishnish (A) Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.49
  12. Poll Na Gille Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 1.32
  13. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.27
  14. North Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.25
  15. Shuna SW (Rubh'an Trilleachain) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.01
  16. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 0.92
  17. Quarry Point Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.87
  18. Hunda Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.87
  19. Gob a Bharra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.86
  20. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 0.82
  21. Wyre Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.8
  22. Clashnessie Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 0.78
  23. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.75
  24. Bagh Dail Nan Cean Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 0.73
  25. Port Na Cro Mowi, Argyll and Bute - 0.71
  26. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.69
  27. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.59
  28. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.55
  29. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 0.54
  30. Noust Geo Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.51