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The following meal advisories for fish found with elevated levels of chlordane, methylmercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are based primarily on protecting sensitive populations, particularly women of childbearing age, pregnant women, fetuses, nursing mothers and children younger than 15 years of age. All advisories may be overprotective for women beyond childbearing age and males 15 years of age and older.

PLEASE NOTE: THE METHYLMERCURY ADVISORY APPLIES TO PREDATOR FISH – all species of black bass (largemouth, smallmouth and spotted), striped bass, white bass, hybrid striped bass, walleye, sauger, saugeye, flathead catfish, muskellunge and northern pike – IN ALL ILLINOIS WATERS. For more information on mercury in Illinois fish, see the "SPECIAL MERCURY ADVISORY", "Facts About Illinois' Methylmercury Advisory", "Facts About Illinois' Chlordane Advisory" and "Facts About Illinois' Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Advisory"

Click on a listed body of water or corresponding number on the map for more detailed information

1) Lake Michigan
2) Arrowhead Lake
3) Big Muddy River
4) Busse Lake
5) Calumet River
  a.) Calumet River
  b.) Calumet Sag Channel
  c.) Little Calumet River
6) Campus Lake
7) Casey Fork Creek
8) Cedar Lake
9) Chicago River
  a.) Chicago River
  b.) North Branch
  c.) South Branch
  d.) North Shore Channel
  e.) Sanitary and Ship Channel
10) Crab Orchard Lake
  a.) East of Wolf Creek Road
  b.) West of Wolf Creek Road
11) Des Plaines River
  a.) Rt. 120 to Hoffman Dam
  b.) Hoffman Dam to Lockport
  c.) Lockport to Kankakee River
12) Devil's Kitchen Lake
13) DuPage River
  a.)Headwaters to Rt. 6
  b.) Rt. 6 to Des Plaines River
14) Fox Chain-O-Lakes
15) Fox River
16) Frank Holten Lakes
17) Galena River
18) Highland-Silver Lake
19) Horseshoe Lake
20) Illinois River
  a.) Peoria Pool
  b.) Starved Rock
  c.) Marseilles to Headwaters
  d.)Peoria to Mississippi River
21) Kaskaskia River
22) Kickapoo Creek
23) Kinkaid Lake
24) Kishwaukee River
25) Kishwaukee River South Branch
26) Lake Bracken
27) Lake Calumet
28) Lake Decatur
29) Lake Fork Creek
30) Lake In the Hills
31) Lake Taylorville
32) Little Grassy Lake
33) Mackinaw River
34) Marquette Park Lagoon
35) Mazon River
36) Midlothian Reservoir
37) Missippippi River
  a.) Mississippi River
  b.) River except Pool 15
  c.) Pool 15
  d.) Wisconsin to Lock 26
  e.) Lock 22 to Cairo
38) Monee Reservoir
39) Ohio River
40) Pecatonica River
41) Powerton Lake
42) Rock River
43) Salt Creek
44) Saganashkee Slough
45) Sangamon River
  a.) Lake Decatur to Roby
  b.) Lake Decatur to Illinois River
46) Sangamon River South Fork
47) Schiller Pond
48) Skillet Fork Creek
49) Sugar River
50) Sycamore Lake
51) Wabash River
52) Wolf Lake

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