LivewellSpecies
Sauger
Sauger carries consumption advisories on 43 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 sauger: DDT, Mercury, PCBs
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for sauger is For children under 15 and people who are or may become pregnant: 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 sauger has advisories
Waters with sauger advisories
- Ohio River Illinois
- Wabash River Illinois
- Bean Blossom Creek Indiana
- Black Creek Indiana
- Blue River Indiana
- Deer Creek Indiana
- East Fork White River Indiana
- Ohio River Indiana
- Ohio River Indiana
- Patoka River Indiana
- Pike Lake Indiana
- Plummer Creek Indiana
- Sugar Creek (Wabash River Basin) Indiana
- Wabash River Indiana
- Wabash River Indiana
- Wabash River Indiana
- Walnut Creek Indiana
- West Fork White River Indiana
- Whitewater River Indiana
- Crane Lake Minnesota
- Little Vermilion Lake Minnesota
- Namakan Lake Minnesota
- Rainy Lake Minnesota
- Sand Point Lake Minnesota
- Bighorn Reservoir Montana
- Lake Sakakawea North Dakota
- Captina Creek Ohio
- Duck Creek Ohio
- Duck Creek Ohio
- Little Beaver Creek Ohio
- Little Miami River Ohio
- Middle Fork Little Beaver Creek Ohio
- Middle Fork Little Beaver Creek Ohio
- Ohio River Ohio
- Pine Creek Ohio
- Salt Creek Ohio
- Symmes Creek Ohio
- Whitewater River Ohio
- Norris Reservoir Tennessee
- Watts Bar Reservoir Tennessee
- Hughes River from mouth upstream to North and South forks West Virginia
- Little Kanawha from mouth upstream to Wells Lock West Virginia
- Ohio River Segment - Pennsylvania Border (East Liverpool) to Belleville Lock (Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio, Pleasants, Tyler, Wetzel and Wood counties) West Virginia