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: 22/12/2025
13/128 sites counting over the 1 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. Gravir Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 6.22
  2. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 4.6
  3. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 3.83
  4. Bloody Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 3.05
  5. Kishorn B (North) Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 2.2
  6. Clashnessie Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.8
  7. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 1.8
  8. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.71
  9. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 1.67
  10. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.6
  11. Kishorn West Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.43
  12. Sian Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.4
  13. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 1.29