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: 23/02/2026
17/96 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. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 2.73
  2. Winna Ness Cooke, Shetland - 2.56
  3. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 2.44
  4. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 1.96
  5. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 1.95
  6. East of Holm Heogland (Burkwell) Cooke, Shetland - 1.88
  7. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 1.76
  8. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.7
  9. Druimyeon Bay Bakkafrost, Argyll and Bute - 1.37
  10. Scadabay Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 1.12
  11. Chalmers Hope Cooke, Orkney - 1.08
  12. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 1.06
  13. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.04
  14. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1
  15. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 1
  16. Vuia Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.69
  17. Fara West Cooke, Orkney - 0.68