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Chinook Salmon — advisory record across Ontario

40waterbodies with an advisory for this species
7contaminants named
536advisory rows on file

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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.

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Waterbodies with an advisory for Chinook Salmon

Waterbodies where this species carries an advisory
WaterbodyContaminant recorded for this species here
Ausable RiverPCB
Big CreekPCB
Black Bay area (Lake Superior)Mercury, PCB, PFAS, PCB, PCB, PFAS, PFAS
Bronte CreekPCB
Credit RiverPCB, PFAS, PFAS
Ganaraska RiverPCB
Georgian Bay (Lake Huron)Mercury, PCB, Mercury, PFAS, PCB, PCB, PFAS, PFAS
Goulais RiverPCB
Grindstone CreekPCB
Hamilton Harbour (Lake Ontario)PCB
Humber River MarshPCB, PFAS, PFAS
Jordan Harbour (Lake Ontario)PCB, PFAS
Lake EriePCB
Lake Huron (Main Basin)PCB, PCB, PFAS, PFAS
Lake Ontario (Eastern Basin)PCB, PCB, PFAS, PFAS
Lake Ontario (Western Basin)PCB, PFAS, PFAS
Lake Superior (Eastern Basin)Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB
Lake Superior (Western Basin)Mercury, Mercury, PFAS, PCB, PFAS, PFAS
Maitland RiverPFAS
Michipicoten RiverMercury, PCB, PCB
Napanee River - Below WaterfallsPCB
Niagara River (Lower reach)PCB, PFAS
Nipigon Bay (Lake Superior)Mercury, PFAS, PFAS
North Channel (Lake Huron)PCB
North Channel - Whalesback Channel (Lake Huron)Mercury, PCB, PCB
Nottawasaga RiverMercury, PCB, PCB
Pine RiverPCB
Port Dalhousie (Lake Ontario)PCB
Proctors CreekPCB
Red Hill CreekPCB
Rouge RiverPCB
Saugeen RiverPCB, PFAS, PFAS
Severn Sound (Georgian Bay - Lake Huron)Mercury, PCB, PCB
St. Marys RiverPCB
Steel RiverPCB
Sydenham RiverMercury, PCB, Mercury, PFAS, PCB, PFAS
Thunder Bay (Lake Superior)Mercury, PFAS, PCB, PFAS
Toronto Waterfront Area (Lake Ontario)PCB
Trent RiverPCB
Twenty Mile CreekPCB

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.

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