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White Perch — advisory record across Ontario

25waterbodies with an advisory for this species
7contaminants named
160advisory 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.

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 White Perch

Waterbodies where this species carries an advisory
WaterbodyContaminant recorded for this species here
16 Mile Creek MarshMercury, PCB, PCB
Belleville Nearshore (Lake Ontario)Mercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB
Detroit River (Lower reach)PFAS
Detroit River (Upper reach)PCB, PFAS, PFAS
Frenchman Bay (Lake Ontario)PCB
Grand RiverPFAS
Hamilton Harbour (Lake Ontario)Mercury, PCB, PFAS, PCB, PFAS
Jordan Harbour (Lake Ontario)Mercury, PFAS, PFAS
Lake EriePFAS
Lake Huron (Main Basin)Mercury, PFAS, PFAS
Lake Ontario (Eastern Basin)Mercury, PCB, PFAS, PCB, PFAS
Lake Ontario (Western Basin)Mercury, PCB, PFAS, PCB, PFAS
Lake St. ClairMercury, Mercury, PCB, PCB
Martindale PondPCB
Niagara River (Lower reach)Mercury, PCB, PCB
Niagara River (Upper reach)Mercury, PCB, PCB
Port Dalhousie (Lake Ontario)PCB
Rondeau Bay (Lake Erie)Mercury, PCB, PCB, PFAS
St. Clair RiverPCB, PCB, PFAS
St. Lawrence River (Lake Ontario to Cornwall)Mercury, PFAS, PFAS
St. Lawrence River (Lake St. Francis)Mercury, PFAS, PFAS
Thames RiverMercury, Mercury, PCB
Toronto Waterfront Area (Lake Ontario)Mercury, PFAS, PFAS
Trenton Nearshore (Lake Ontario)PCB, PFAS, PFAS
Welland RiverPFAS

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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