LivewellSpecies
Pumpkinseed
Pumpkinseed carries consumption advisories on 70 waters across 5 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 pumpkinseed: Arsenic, Mercury, PCBs, PFOS
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for pumpkinseed is For children under 15 and people who are or may become pregnant: limit to one meal per month due to elevated PFOS. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where pumpkinseed has advisories
Waters with pumpkinseed advisories
- Barbee Lakes Indiana
- Bass Lake Indiana
- Alimagnet Lake Minnesota
- Bass Lake Minnesota
- Bennett Lake Minnesota
- Blackbird Slough Minnesota
- Blackhawk Lake Minnesota
- Buchanan Lake Minnesota
- Burleigh Slough Minnesota
- Bush Lake Minnesota
- Centerville Lake Minnesota
- Cobblestone Lake Minnesota
- Colby Lake Minnesota
- Crooked Lake Minnesota
- Crooked Slough Minnesota
- Cross Lake Minnesota
- Crystal Lake Minnesota
- Dark Slough Minnesota
- Dayton Hollow Reservoir Minnesota
- Eddy Lake Minnesota
- Esquagama Lake Minnesota
- Fenske Lake Minnesota
- Gleason Lake Minnesota
- Gleason Lake (Main Lake) Minnesota
- Haddock Slough Minnesota
- Halfmoon Lake Minnesota
- Horseshoe Bend Lake Minnesota
- Lake De Montreville Minnesota
- Lake Jane Minnesota
- Maloney Lake Minnesota
- McDonough Lake Minnesota
- Miller Lake Minnesota
- Minneowka Lake Minnesota
- Moulton Lake Minnesota
- Ole Lake Minnesota
- Pap Slough Minnesota
- Parkers Lake Minnesota
- Peltier Lake Minnesota
- Polander Lake Minnesota
- Powers Lake Minnesota
- Prichard Lake Minnesota
- Round Lake Minnesota
- Sabin Lake Minnesota
- Savanna Lake Minnesota
- Shipman Bass Lake Minnesota
- Silver Lake Minnesota
- Snelling Lake Minnesota
- Spring Lake Minnesota
- Spurzem Lake Minnesota
- Staring Lake Minnesota
- Steiger Lake Minnesota
- Straight Slough Minnesota
- U.S. Lock & Dam #5 Pool Minnesota
- U.S. Lock & Dam #5A Pool Minnesota
- U.S. Lock & Dam #6 Pool Minnesota
- Unnamed lake (DOW 19003700) Minnesota
- Unnamed lake (DOW 82008700) Minnesota
- Upper Comstock Lake Minnesota
- Wakefield Lake Minnesota
- West Newton Chute Minnesota
- Willow Reservoir 6A Minnesota
- Wynne Lake Minnesota
- Yeomans Pond Minnesota
- Spring Meadow Lake Montana
- Alum Creek Lake Ohio
- Highlandtown Reservoir Ohio
- Ottawa River (Toledo) Ohio
- Lake Washington Washington
- Lake Whatcom Washington
- Loon Lake Washington