LivewellSpecies
Yellow Bullhead
Yellow Bullhead carries consumption advisories on 31 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 yellow bullhead: DDT, Lead, Mercury, PCBs, PFOS, Thallium
Advisories are per-water — there is no single answer
The strictest advisory on file for yellow bullhead is For women who may become pregnant, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and children under 15: do not eat due to elevated DDT and Mercury. Whether that applies to your fish depends entirely on where you caught it. Find your water below.
Where yellow bullhead has advisories
Waters with yellow bullhead advisories
- Big Creek (Big Creek Lake) Alabama
- Widows Creek (Guntersville Lake) Alabama
- Beaver Creek (Tributary to Patsiliga Creek) Georgia
- Lake Sinclair Georgia
- Ogeechee River (Bulloch County, near Statesboro) Georgia
- Little Wabash River and Tributaries Illinois
- Marion City Reservoir Illinois
- Sugar Creek (Walnut Fork) Indiana
- Bayou Bonne Idee Louisiana
- Silver Lake Massachusetts
- Whitehall Reservoir Massachusetts
- Anacostia River Maryland
- Lake Bernard Frank Maryland
- Liberty Reservoir Maryland
- Lower Patuxent River Maryland
- Middle Patuxent River Maryland
- Monocacy River Maryland
- Non-Tidal Piscataway Creek Maryland
- Savage Reservoir Maryland
- Upper Patuxent River Maryland
- Wilde Lake Maryland
- Youghiogheny River Lake Maryland
- East Branch Black River Ohio
- Grand River Ohio
- Grand River Ohio
- Grand River Ohio
- Little Cuyahoga River Ohio
- South Fork Licking River Ohio
- South Turkeyfoot Creek Ohio
- Tuscarawas River Ohio
- Tuscarawas River Ohio