LivewellSpecies
Brown Bullhead
Brown Bullhead carries consumption advisories on 45 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 brown bullhead: DDT, Mercury, PCBs, Pesticides, PFOS
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for brown bullhead is Do not eat due to elevated Pesticides. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where brown bullhead has advisories
Waters with brown bullhead advisories
- Pea River Alabama
- Buffalo Creek Georgia
- Cochato River, Ice Pond and Sylvan Lake Massachusetts
- Ice Pond Massachusetts
- Muddy River Massachusetts
- Otter River (between the Seaman Paper Dam in Templeton and the confluence with the Millers River in Winchendon) Massachusetts
- Sampsons Pond Massachusetts
- Sylvan Lake Massachusetts
- Anacostia River Maryland
- Back River Maryland
- Bush River Maryland
- Chester River Maryland
- Elk River Maryland
- Gunpowder River Maryland
- Lake Bernard Frank Maryland
- Magothy River Maryland
- Mid Bay: Middle to Patapsco Rivers Maryland
- Middle River Maryland
- Northeast River Maryland
- Patapsco River - Baltimore Harbor Maryland
- South River Maryland
- Susquehanna River - Below Conowingo Dam Maryland
- Wicomico River Maryland
- Cooper River New Jersey
- Buffalo River and Inner Harbor New York
- Delaware Park Lake/Hoyt Lake New York
- Hudson River, Rip Van Winkle Bridge at Catskill to NYC Battery 2, 3, 4 (Bronx, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, New York, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Ulster, Westchester) New York
- Hudson River, south of Rip Van Winkle Bridge at Catskill to NYC Battery New York
- Lake Erie New York
- Niagara River, downstream of Niagara Falls New York
- Niagara River, upstream of Niagara Falls New York
- Onondaga Lake New York
- St. Lawrence River, whole river, excluding Seaway International Bridge area (in St. Lawrence County ) New York
- Cuyahoga River Ohio
- LaDue Reservoir Ohio
- Lake Erie Ohio
- Schuylkill River Pennsylvania
- Banks Lake Washington
- Kitsap Lake Washington
- Lake Fazon Washington
- Lake Meridian Washington
- Lake Sammamish Washington
- Lake Washington Washington
- Lake Whatcom Washington
- Potholes Reservoir Washington