LivewellSpecies
Weakfish
Weakfish carries consumption advisories on 3 waters across 2 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 weakfish: PCBs, Pesticides, PFOS
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for weakfish is For women who may become pregnant, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and children under 15: do not eat due to elevated PCB and Pesticides. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where weakfish has advisories
Waters with weakfish advisories
- St. Johns River from north of the Route 115 Bridge (Mathews Bridge) to south of E 21 St (Center Point Terminal Co) Florida
- Atlantic Ocean 2, 3 (Nassau, Queens, Suffolk) Block Island Sound 2, 3 (Suffolk) Gardiners Bay 2, 3 (Nassau, Queens, Suffolk) Jamaica Bay 2, 3 (Nassau, Kings, Queens) Long Island Sound 2, 3 (Nassau, Westchester, Queens, Suffolk, Bronx) Long Island South Shore, 2, 3 excluding tidal portions of Carmans River, Forge River, and Quantuck Creek (Nassau, Queens, Suffolk) Lower New York Bay, south of Verrazano Narrows Bridge 2, 3 (Kings, Richmond) Peconic Bay 2, 3 (Suffolk) Raritan Bay, east of Wolfe's Pond Park 2, 3 (Richmond) New York
- Carlls River, tidal portion downstream of Argyle Lake Dam (Suffolk) Carmans River, tidal portion from Suffolk Club Dam to Beaverdam Road (Suffolk) Quantuck Creek, tidal portion between Old Ice Pond and Quioque Point (Suffolk) Forge River, tidal portion from Montauk Highway Dam/West Millpond Dam to Masury Point New York