Brown Trout — advisory record across Ontario
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The Guide to Eating Ontario Fish publishes, for each waterbody, species and size, how many meals of that fish are advised. Those meal numbers are not reproduced here, and this site does not give consumption advice.
The reason is specific. The published data records the advisory as a numeric code whose meaning is defined in the Guide's own codebook. Turning that number into "so many meals a month" without the codebook would be this site inventing health advice from a number it cannot read — and if it read the number wrongly, it would be telling people the wrong thing about fish they are about to eat.
So this site does the part it can do from the record alone: it tells you whether a waterbody carries an advisory, for which species, and which contaminant the advisory is named against. Then it hands you to the publisher for the numbers.
For the actual advice, read the guide: Guide to Eating Ontario Fish on ontario.ca. It is the authority. This site is not, and nothing here should be used as a substitute for it.
Waterbodies with an advisory for Brown Trout
| Waterbody | Contaminant recorded for this species here |
|---|---|
| Beaver River | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB |
| Big Creek | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB, Precautionary |
| Bighead River | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB, Precautionary |
| Bowmanville Creek | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB, Precautionary |
| Bronte Creek | PCB, Precautionary |
| Conestogo River | PCB |
| Credit River | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, Mercury, PCB, PFAS, PCB, PCB, PFAS, PFAS, Precautionary |
| Deer Creek Reservoir | Mercury, Precautionary |
| Farewell Creek | Mercury, PCB, PCB |
| Ganaraska River | Mercury, PCB, PCB |
| Ganaraska River - North Branch | Mercury, Precautionary |
| Ganaraska River - Upstream of Port Hope | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB, Precautionary |
| Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) | PFAS |
| Grand River | Mercury, PCB |
| Hamilton Harbour (Lake Ontario) | PCB |
| Humber River | Mercury, Mercury, PCB |
| Humber River Marsh | PCB |
| Lake Erie | PCB, PFAS |
| Lake Huron (Main Basin) | PFAS |
| Lake Ontario (Eastern Basin) | PCB, PCB, PFAS |
| Lake Ontario (Western Basin) | PCB, PCB, PFAS, PFAS |
| Lynn River | PCB |
| Mill Creek | Mercury, Precautionary |
| Niagara River (Lower reach) | PCB, PCB, PFAS, PFAS |
| Niagara River (Upper reach) | PCB |
| Nottawasaga River | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB |
| Oshawa Creek | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB, Precautionary |
| Palgrave Reservoir (Humber River) | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB |
| Port Dalhousie (Lake Ontario) | PCB |
| Rouge River | PCB |
| Soper Creek | Mercury, PCB, Precautionary |
| Sydenham River | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB |
| Toronto Waterfront Area (Lake Ontario) | PCB, PCB, PFAS, PFAS |
| Whiteman's Creek | Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB |
| Wilmot Creek | PCB |
| Youngs Creek | PCB |
The number of meals advised is in the Guide to Eating Ontario Fish.
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About this record
Which Ontario lakes and rivers carry a fish consumption advisory, for which species, and which contaminant the advisory is recorded against. The guide that publishes the meal advice is linked on every page.
Source: Ontario — Guide to Eating Ontario Fish: Advisory Database — Open Government Licence – Ontario. Data refreshes as published. Every page links the row it came from.
What this site is not. It is a copy of an official record. It is not a judgement about any business, building or person, and it is not advice. If the record is wrong, the source above is where it is corrected.