LivewellSpecies
Brook Trout
Brook Trout carries consumption advisories on 48 waters across 9 states. Limits depend on the water and the fish's size — a bigger fish has had longer to accumulate contaminants, so it's usually the stricter one.
Contaminants found in brook trout: Arsenic, Mercury, PCBs, PFAS, PFOS, Selenium
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for brook trout is Do not eat due to elevated PFOS. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where brook trout has advisories
Waters with brook trout advisories
- Feather River, Upper California
- South Lake California
- Whiskeytown Lake California
- Aroostook River Maine
- Collyer Brook Maine
- Fifteenmile Stream Maine
- Belmont Creek Michigan
- Carlton Creek Michigan
- Clam River Michigan
- Deer Lake Michigan
- Halfway Creek Michigan
- Iron River Michigan
- Little Carp River Michigan
- Maple River Michigan
- Perry Creek Michigan
- Sid Lake Michigan
- Silver Lead Creek Michigan
- Tahquamenon River Michigan
- Tannery Creek Michigan
- Balsam Lake Minnesota
- Bingshick Lake Minnesota
- East Lake Minnesota
- Gypsy Lake Minnesota
- Jouppi Lake Minnesota
- Loft Lake Minnesota
- Meditation Lake Minnesota
- Pine Lake Minnesota
- Thrasher Lake Minnesota
- Tischer Creek Minnesota
- Wench Lake Minnesota
- Blacktail Creek Montana
- Carpenter Creek Montana
- Clear Lake Montana
- Dry Fork Belt Creek Montana
- Georgetown Lake Montana
- Leigh Lake Montana
- Mountain View Lake Montana
- Mystic Lake Montana
- Silver Bow Creek Montana
- Cabresto Lake New Mexico
- Carmans River, above Suffolk Club Dam New York
- Mohawk River/ Erie Canal between Fivemile Dam (downstream of Little Falls) and Cohoes Falls New York
- Raquette River, downstream of Raymondville Dam New York
- West Branch Schuylkill River Pennsylvania
- Mt. Rainier National Park Washington
- North Cascades National Park Washington
- North Cascades National Park Washington
- Olympic National Park Washington