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: 27/04/2026
30/136 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:
- South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 2.96
- Bight of Foraness Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.22
- Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 2.06
- Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.95
- Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.8
- Ormsary Broodstock Unit Landcatch Natural Selection, Argyll and Bute - 1.65
- Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.63
- Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.53
- Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 1.51
- Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.45
- Linga (Setterness) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.41
- Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 1.38
- Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.37
- Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 1.36
- Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.27
- Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.26
- Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.23
- Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 1.2
- Ardintoul Mowi, Highland - 1.1
- Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.02
- Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 0.94
- Vuia Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.87
- East Tarbert Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.8
- East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 0.71
- Leinish Loch Duart, Highland - 0.65
- Kerrera B Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.63
- Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.6
- Scadabay Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.53
- Poseidon Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.51
- Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.51