LivewellSpecies
Lake Trout
Lake Trout carries consumption advisories on 39 waters across 10 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 lake trout: Dioxins, Mercury, PCBs, PFOS
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for lake trout is Do not eat due to elevated PCB. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where lake trout has advisories
Waters with lake trout advisories
- Lake Pend Oreille Idaho
- Priest Lake Idaho
- Lake Michigan Illinois
- Lake Michigan Indiana
- Crystal Lake For All Other Lakes and Rivers In Michigan
- Elk Lake Michigan
- Filets of Fish From Lake Michigan
- Grand Sable Lake Michigan
- Green Lake Michigan
- Lake Charlevoix Michigan
- Lake Skegemog Michigan
- Little Traverse Bay Michigan
- North Lake Leelanau Michigan
- Saginaw Bay Michigan
- Siskiwit Lake Michigan
- South Lake Leelanau Michigan
- Thunder Bay E Michigan
- Bowman Lake Montana
- Flathead Lake Montana
- Fort Peck Reservoir Montana
- Harrison Lake Montana
- Lake McDonald Montana
- McGregor Lake Montana
- Mystic Lake Montana
- Noxon Rapids Reservoir Montana
- Swan Lake Montana
- Upper Two Medicine Lake Montana
- Whitefish Lake Montana
- Merrill Creek Reservoir New Jersey
- Round Valley Reservoir New Jersey
- Heron Reservoir New Mexico
- Canadice Lake New York
- Lake Erie New York
- Lake Ontario New York
- Niagara River, downstream of Niagara Falls New York
- Niagara River, upstream of Niagara Falls New York
- St. Lawrence River, whole river, excluding Seaway International Bridge area (in St. Lawrence County ) New York
- Lake Erie Ohio
- Lake Champlain Vermont