LivewellSpecies
Cutthroat Trout
Cutthroat Trout carries consumption advisories on 30 waters across 4 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 cutthroat trout: Arsenic, Mercury, PCBs, PFOS
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for cutthroat trout is For pregnant or breastfeeding women: 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 cutthroat trout has advisories
Waters with cutthroat trout advisories
- Grasmere Reservoir Idaho
- Portneuf River Idaho
- Shoofly Reservoir Idaho
- Basin Creek Reservoir Montana
- Boulder Creek Montana
- Cabinet Gorge Reservoir Montana
- Chrome Lake Montana
- Cliff Lake Montana
- Crystal Lake Montana
- Dry Fork Belt Creek Montana
- Hyalite Reservoir Montana
- Lake Koocanusa Montana
- Lower Willow Creek Reservoir Montana
- Mystic Lake Montana
- Ramsey Montana
- Rocker Montana
- Silver Creek Montana
- South Fork Lower Willow Creek Montana
- Spring Meadow Lake Montana
- Upper Cold Lake Montana
- Barney Lake Utah
- Electric Lake Utah
- Millsite Reservoir Utah
- Whitney Reservoir Utah
- Lake Washington Washington
- Lake Whatcom Washington
- Mt. Rainier National Park Washington
- North Cascades National Park Washington
- Olympic National Park Washington
- Thornton Lake Washington