| Kind of fish |
How often can you eat it? |
| EAT |
Catfish (farm-raised), cod, crab, flatfish, herring, oysters, pollock, salmon**, sardines, scallops, shrimp, tilapia, and other purchased fish low in mercury
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2 meals per week |
| OR |
Canned "light" tuna
Minnesota caught: Sunfish, crappie, yellow perch, bullheads
|
|
1 meal per week
(see exceptions)* |
**salmon-farm-raised or wild, Pacific and Atlantic - not Great Lakes |
| AND |
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
|
|
1 meal per month
(see exceptions)* |
| DON'T EAT |
Shark, Swordfish, tile fish, king mackerel
Minnesota caught: walleye larger than 20 inches, northern pike longer than 30 inches, muskellunge
| |
Do not eat |
*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. |
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