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Safe Eating Guidelines

• OEHHA’s fish advisories provide “safe eating guidelines” to help you choose the safest fish to eat and avoid fish species with high levels of chemicals in them

• OEHHA’s advisories are based on sampling results for common fish species that people catch and eat from California water bodies

• If you do not see a fish species listed for a water body, it does not mean you can eat it as often as you like. Rather, it is missing because the species has not been tested at that water body.

News

Fish Advisory For Vasona Lake and Camden Ponds: Trout Safe to Eat Daily, But Avoid Carp and Goldfish
[11/13/13]

• Press Release Safe Eating Advice for Vasona Lake and Camden Ponds (pdf)
• Report: Heath Advisory and Guidelines for Eating Fish from Vasona Lake and Camden Ponds (pdf)
• Guidelines for Eating Fish from Vasona Lake and Camden Ponds
• Guía Saludable para Consumir Pescado de Vasona Lake y Camden Ponds

 

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Special Advisories

• Statewide Advisory for Eating Fish from California's Lakes and Reservoirs without site-specific advice
  
  • Press Release
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• OEHHA Rescinds Ballena Boulevard Shoreline Mussel Advisory
  
• American shad, Chinook (king) salmon, steelhead trout, striped bass, and white sturgeon caught in California rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters

OEHHA’s Fish Consumption Advisories and Safe Eating Guidelines:

Water Body	County
Alamitos Creek	Santa Clara
Almaden Reservoir	Santa Clara
American River, Lower	Sacramento
Anderson Reservoir	Santa Clara
Bear Creek	Colusa
Black Butte Lake	Glenn, Tehama
Bon Tempe Reservoir	Marin
Cache Creek	Lake, Yolo, Colusa
Calero Reservoir	Santa Clara
Camden Pond	Santa Clara
Camp Far West Reservoir	Yuba, Nevada, Placer
Carrville Pond	Trinity
Clear Lake	Lake
Cosumnes River, Lower	Sacramento
Del Valle Reservoir	Alameda
Delta, Central and South	Contra Costa, San Joaquin
Delta, Northern	Sacramento, Solano, Yolo
Donner Lake	Nevada
Englebright Lake	Yuba, Nevada
East Park Reservoir	Colusa
Feather River, Lower	Butte, Yuba, Sutter
Folsom Lake	Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer
Grassland Area	Merced
Guadalupe Creek	Santa Clara
Guadalupe Reservoir	Santa Clara
Guadalupe River	Santa Clara
Lafayette Reservoir	Contra Costa
Lake Berryessa	Napa
Lake Chabot	Alameda
Lake Combie	Placer, Nevada
Lake Herman	Solano
Lake McClure	Mariposa
Lake McSwain	Mariposa
Lake Mendocino	Mendocino
Lake Nacimiento	San Luis Obispo
Lake Natoma	Sacramento
Lake Oroville	Butte County
Lake Pillsbury	Lake
Lake Sonoma	Sonoma
Lewiston Lake	Trinity
Magic Johnson Lakes	Los Angeles
Mission Bay	San Diego
Mokelumne River, Lower	Sacramento, San Joaquin
Mokelumne River at Lodi Lake	San Joaquin
Nicasio Reservoir	Marin
Oso Flaco Lake	San Luis Obispo
Putah Creek	Yolo, Solano
Pyramid Lake	Los Angeles
Rollins Reservoir	Nevada, Placer
Sacramento River	Shasta, Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Colusa, Yuba, Sutter, Yolo, Sacramento, Solano, Contra Costa
Salton Sea	Imperial, Riverside
San Diego Bay	San Diego
San Francisco Bay	Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma
San Joaquin River	Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, San Joaquin
San Pablo Reservoir	Contra Costa
Silverwood Lake	San Bernardino
Soulajule Reservoir	Marin
Santa Monica Bay and San Pedro Bay	Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange
Stevens Creek Reservoir	Santa Clara
Stony Gorge Reservoir	Glenn
Tomales Bay	Marin
Trinity Lake	Trinity
Trinity River, East Fork	Trinity
Trinity River, upstream of Trinity Lake	Trinity
Vasona Lake	Santa Clara

Advisory map - water bodies with fish consumption advisories in California 

 

OEHHA updated many of the advisories in March 2009. This report describes how OEHHA updated each advisory

If you did not find advice for the water body you searched, you can follow the tips in the General Advice.

Use the links on the right side of this page to find more information about safe fish consumption.