LivewellSpecies
Saugeye
Saugeye carries consumption advisories on 32 waters across 3 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 saugeye: Mercury, PCBs
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for saugeye is Limit to one meal per month due to elevated Mercury. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where saugeye has advisories
Waters with saugeye advisories
- Glenn Flint Lake Indiana
- Huntingburg Lake Indiana
- Lake Sullivan Indiana
- Pike Lake Indiana
- Acton Lake Ohio
- Alum Creek Lake Ohio
- Atwood Lake Ohio
- Belmont Lake Ohio
- Buckeye Lake Ohio
- Dow Lake Ohio
- Duck Creek Ohio
- East Fork Lake (Harsha Lake) Ohio
- Indian Lake Ohio
- Lake Logan Ohio
- Lake Loramie Ohio
- Leesville Lake Ohio
- Licking River Ohio
- Mill Creek (Marysville) Ohio
- Muskingum River Ohio
- O'Shaughnessy Reservoir Ohio
- Ohio River Ohio
- Paint Creek Lake Ohio
- Piedmont Lake Ohio
- Scioto River Ohio
- Scioto River Ohio
- Scioto River Ohio
- St. Mary's River Ohio
- Stillwater Creek Ohio
- Veteran's Memorial Reservoir Ohio
- Wills Creek Ohio
- Wolf Run Lake Ohio
- Ohio River Segment - Pennsylvania Border (East Liverpool) to Belleville Lock (Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio, Pleasants, Tyler, Wetzel and Wood counties) West Virginia