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: 05/01/2026
25/126 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. Caolas A Deas Mowi, Western Isles - 6.73
  2. Gometra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 5.3
  3. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 4.59
  4. Seaforth Mowi, Western Isles - 4.55
  5. Swining Voe 3 Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 4.43
  6. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 3.29
  7. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 2.6
  8. Setterness North (Bomlo) Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2.23
  9. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 1.95
  10. Sian Bay Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.76
  11. Wick of Belmont Cooke, Shetland - 1.73
  12. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 1.7
  13. Trilleachan Mor Mowi, Western Isles - 1.69
  14. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.66
  15. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 1.65
  16. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 1.63
  17. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 1.59
  18. Kishorn B (North) Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.56
  19. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 1.48
  20. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 1.47
  21. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 1.3
  22. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.2
  23. Kishorn West Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.2
  24. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.09
  25. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.04