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: 25/08/2025
38/115 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. Clashnessie Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 10.39
  2. Bow of Hascosay Cooke, Shetland - 3.92
  3. Wick of Vatsetter Cooke, Shetland - 3.27
  4. Djubawick Cooke, Shetland - 2.88
  5. Loch A Chairn Bhain Loch Duart, Highland - 2.51
  6. Lamlash Bakkafrost, North Ayrshire - 2.37
  7. Fishnish Scottish Sea Farms, Argyll and Bute - 2.2
  8. Bastaness Cooke, Shetland - 2.2
  9. Pegal Bay Cooke, Orkney - 1.94
  10. Flaeshins Cooke, Shetland - 1.9
  11. Sandwick Cooke, Shetland - 1.88
  12. Vee Taing Cooke, Shetland - 1.76
  13. Kishorn B (North) Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.43
  14. Loch Snizort East Loch Duart, Highland - 1.33
  15. Torridon Mowi, Highland - 1.27
  16. Badcall Bay Loch Duart, Highland - 1.26
  17. Tanera Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 1.18
  18. West Strome Bakkafrost, Highland - 1.14
  19. Holms Geo Scottish Sea Farms, Shetland - 1.1
  20. Kames Bay (west) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.05
  21. Shuna Castle Kames, Argyll and Bute - 1.05
  22. Bring Head Scottish Sea Farms, Orkney - 0.97
  23. South Cava Cooke, Orkney - 0.94
  24. Kishorn West Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.86
  25. Stead of Aithness Cooke, Shetland - 0.84
  26. Shuna SW (Rubh'an Trilleachain) Kames, Argyll and Bute - 0.82
  27. Meil Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.74
  28. Maragay Mor Bakkafrost, Western Isles - 0.74
  29. Fiunary Scottish Sea Farms, Highland - 0.73
  30. Cairidh Mowi, Highland - 0.71
  31. Uyea Isle Cooke, Shetland - 0.64
  32. Loch Leven (1) Mowi, Highland - 0.6
  33. Mill Bay Cooke, Orkney - 0.6
  34. Quanterness Cooke, Orkney - 0.55
  35. Sound of Harris Loch Duart, Western Isles - 0.54
  36. Calva Bay (Calbha Beag) Loch Duart, Highland - 0.53
  37. Invasion Bay Mowi, Highland - 0.52
  38. Bay of Holland Cooke, Orkney - 0.52