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: 13/04/2026
20/137 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. Olna South Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.8
  2. Setterness North (Bomlo) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.5
  3. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 2.32
  4. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 2.31
  5. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 2.28
  6. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.27
  7. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 2.24
  8. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.95
  9. Sian Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.82
  10. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 1.5
  11. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.41
  12. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 1.28
  13. Toyness Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.92
  14. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.83
  15. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 0.8
  16. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.8
  17. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 0.8
  18. Hunda Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.8
  19. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 0.78
  20. Westerbister Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.55