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: 01/06/2026
21/137 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 A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 5.23
  2. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.85
  3. Linga (Setterness) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2
  4. Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.9
  5. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 1.49
  6. East Moclett Cooke, Orkney - 1.39
  7. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 1.36
  8. Skelwick Skerry Cooke, Orkney - 1.15
  9. Bay of Cleat (North) Cooke, Orkney - 1.13
  10. Ouseness Cooke, Orkney - 1.13
  11. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 1.08
  12. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 1.02
  13. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.9
  14. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.89
  15. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.87
  16. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 0.76
  17. Corry Farm Mowi, Highland - 0.75
  18. Scallastle Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.71
  19. Vidlin North Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.68
  20. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.68
  21. Puldrite Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.67