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: 07/04/2025
27/144 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. Nevis B Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 3.9
  2. North Voe Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 3.6
  3. Lismore West Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 3.25
  4. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 3.04
  5. Nevis A Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 2.73
  6. Dunstaffnage Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 2.64
  7. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 2.4
  8. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 2.28
  9. Gletness Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 2
  10. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 1.87
  11. Loch Snizort East Loch Duart, Highland - 1.73
  12. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.72
  13. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 1.7
  14. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 1.32
  15. Kerrera B Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.3
  16. Loch Laxford Loch Duart, Highland - 1.25
  17. Shuna Point Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 1.2
  18. Meall Mhor Loch Fyne Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.17
  19. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 0.93
  20. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.91
  21. Ardgaddan Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.9
  22. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.85
  23. Fishnish (A) Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 0.81
  24. Gob a Bharra Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 0.68
  25. Sgeir Dughall Bakkafrost, Highland - 0.66
  26. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.65
  27. Clashnessie Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 0.54