LivewellSpecies
White Sucker
White Sucker carries consumption advisories on 101 waters across 11 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 white sucker: Arsenic, Chlordane, DDT, Mercury, PCBs, PFAS, PFOS
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for white sucker is Do not eat due to elevated PFAS. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where white sucker has advisories
Waters with white sucker advisories
- American Falls Reservoir Idaho
- Payette River Idaho
- Franklin Creek Illinois
- Waukegan North Harbor Illinois
- Baugo Creek Indiana
- Big Lick Creek Indiana
- Blue Creek Indiana
- Breckenridge Ditch Indiana
- Burns Ditch Indiana
- Cedar Creek Indiana
- Center Lake Indiana
- Clear Creek (East Fork White River) Indiana
- Coffee Creek Indiana
- Crooked Creek Indiana
- Deep River Indiana
- East Arm Little Calumet River Indiana
- East Fork White Lick Creek Indiana
- Elkhart River Indiana
- Fairfield Ditch Indiana
- Fish Creek Indiana
- Lake Michigan Indiana
- Little Calumet River Indiana
- Little Cedar Creek Indiana
- Little Lick Creek Indiana
- Little Mississinewa River Indiana
- Little Wabash River Indiana
- Middle Fork Wildcat Creek Indiana
- Mississinewa River Indiana
- Ohio River Indiana
- Ohio River Indiana
- Palestine Lake Indiana
- Pigeon Creek Indiana
- Pipe Creek Indiana
- Pipe Creek (White River Basin) Indiana
- Pleasant Run Indiana
- Pleasant Run Creek Indiana
- Richland Creek Indiana
- Salt Creek Indiana
- South Fork Wildcat Creek Indiana
- Spring Mill Park Lake Indiana
- St. Joseph River (Lake Erie Basin) Indiana
- St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan Basin) Indiana
- St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan Basin) Indiana
- St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan Basin) Indiana
- Stony Creek Indiana
- Stony Creek Indiana
- Stouts Creek Indiana
- Tippecanoe River Indiana
- Trail Creek Indiana
- Turkey Creek Indiana
- Walnut Creek Indiana
- Yellow River Indiana
- Box Pond Massachusetts
- Canton River (between the Neponset River and Neponset Street dam) Massachusetts
- Fort Meadow Reservoir Massachusetts
- Lower Mystic Lake Massachusetts
- Merrimack River (from the MA/NH state line to Broadway Dam in Lawrence) Massachusetts
- Mother Brook (between Charles River and Knight Street Dam) Massachusetts
- Mother Brook (between the Knight Street Dam and the Neponset River) Massachusetts
- Neponset River (between the Hollingsworth & Vose Dam in Walpole and the Walter Baker Dam in Boston) Massachusetts
- Otter River (between the Seaman Paper Dam in Templeton and the confluence with the Millers River in Winchendon) Massachusetts
- Rice City Pond Massachusetts
- Rolling Dam Impoundment Massachusetts
- Spicket River Massachusetts
- Stevens Pond & Spicket River (from Stevens Pond to Music Hall Dam in Methuen) Massachusetts
- Antietam Creek Maryland
- Gunpowder River Maryland
- Jones Falls Maryland
- Upper Patuxent River Maryland
- Winters Run Maryland
- Vermilion River Minnesota
- Missouri River Montana
- Eagle Nest Lake New Mexico
- El Vado Lake New Mexico
- Heron Reservoir New Mexico
- Lake Maloya New Mexico
- Rio Grande New Mexico
- Storrie Lake New Mexico
- Buffalo River and Inner Harbor New York
- Catharine Creek New York
- Delaware Park Lake/Hoyt Lake New York
- Erie Canal, between Lockport and Niagara River/ Tonawanda Creek downstream of Pendleton New York
- Hoosic River, from Schaghticoke Dam to Vermont state line (including Johnsonville and Schaghticoke Reservoirs) New York
- Lake Erie New York
- Mohawk River/ Erie Canal between Fivemile Dam (downstream of Little Falls) and Cohoes Falls New York
- Mohawk River/ Erie Canal, between Lock E18 at Jacksonburg and Fivemile Dam below Little Falls New York
- Mohawk River/Erie Canal, between Lock E20 at Whitesboro and Lock E18 at Jacksonburg New York
- Mohawk River/Erie Canal, from Feeder Dam 1 on Mohawk River and Lock E21 at New London to Lock E20 at Whitesboro New York
- Mud Creek, tributary to Sauquoit Creek New York
- Niagara River, upstream of Niagara Falls New York
- Patroon Creek New York
- Raquette River, downstream of Raymondville Dam New York
- Sauquoit Creek, between Old Silk Mill Dam near New Hartford/Paris town line and Mohawk River New York
- Waterport Reservoir/Lake Alice New York
- Cuyahoga River Ohio
- Bluestone River Virginia
- Bluestone River Virginia
- Lewis Creek Virginia
- Lewis Creek Virginia
- Stock Creek Virginia
- Stock Creek Virginia