Safe Eating Guidelines

 Kind of fish

How often can you eat it? 

Catfish (farm-raised), cod, crab, flatfish, herring, oysters, pollock, salmon**, sardines, scallops, shrimp, tilapia, and other purchased fish low in mercury

Canned "light" tuna
Minnesota caught: Sunfish, crappie, yellow perch, bullheads

**salmon-farm-raised or wild, Pacific and Atlantic - not Great Lakes

Canned "white" tuna, chilean seabass, grouper, halibut, marlin, orange roughy, tuna steak
Minnesota caught: bass, catfish, walleye shorter than 20 inches, northern pike shorter than 30 inches, and other MN gamefish

Shark, Swordfish, tile fish, king mackerel
Minnesota caught: walleye larger than 20 inches, northern pike longer than 30 inches, muskellunge

*Fish from some Minnesota Lakes and rivers have been found to have higher levels of mercury or PCBs. If you eat certain fish from these waters, you should eat it less often than these guidelines. See exceptions tables (above) for further information on restrictions for eating fish from the specific Minnesota lakes and rivers.

There is no change in these guidelines for eating fish just during vacation or one season.

 Kind of fish

How often can you eat it? 

Minnesota caught: Sunfish, crappie, yellow perch, bullheads

Minnesota caught: Walleyes, northern pike, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, channel catfish, flathead catfish, white sucker, drum, burbot, sauger, carp, lake trout, white bass, rock bass, white fish, other species

Limit the following species: shark, swordfish, tile fish, king mackerel