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: 30/03/2026
22/132 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. Poseidon Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.12
  2. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 2.84
  3. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 2.82
  4. Olna South Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.38
  5. Cole Deep Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.15
  6. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.82
  7. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 1.7
  8. Setterness North (Bomlo) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.68
  9. Slocka Ronas Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.56
  10. Bight of Foraness Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.43
  11. Loch Duich Mowi, Highland - 1.34
  12. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.32
  13. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 1.24
  14. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 1.16
  15. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 0.98
  16. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 0.83
  17. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 0.73
  18. Kyles Vuia Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.66
  19. Hunda Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.62
  20. Lochmaddy Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.57
  21. Linga (Setterness) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 0.53
  22. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 0.51