LivewellSpecies
Chinook Salmon
Chinook Salmon carries consumption advisories on 32 waters across 8 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 chinook salmon: Mercury, PCBs
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for chinook salmon is For women 18–49 and children 1–17: do not eat due to elevated Mercury. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where chinook salmon has advisories
Waters with chinook salmon advisories
- American River, Lower California
- Feather River, Lower California
- Folsom Lake California
- Lake Berryessa California
- Lake McClure California
- Lake Natoma California
- Mokelumne River at Lodi Lake California
- Mokelumne River, Lower California
- Sacramento River and Northern Delta California
- San Francisco Bay California
- Shasta Lake California
- Lake Michigan Illinois
- Lake Michigan Indiana
- Au Sable River Michigan
- Filets of Fish From Lake Michigan
- Filets of Fish From Lake Superior Michigan
- Little Traverse Bay Michigan
- Thunder Bay E Michigan
- Fort Peck Reservoir Montana
- Lake Sakakawea North Dakota
- Eighteenmile Creek, downstream of Burt Dam New York
- Lake Ontario New York
- Lower Duwamish River Washington
- Puget Sound Washington
- Puget Sound Washington
- Puget Sound Washington
- Puget Sound Washington
- Puget Sound Washington
- Puget Sound Washington
- Puget Sound Washington
- Puget Sound Washington
- Puget Sound Washington