Current Fish Advisories |
STREAM |
COUNTY |
PORTION |
POLLUTANT |
COMMENTS |
Loosahatchie River |
Shelby |
Mile 0.0-17.0 |
Chlordane, Other Organics, Mercury |
Do not eat the fish. |
McKellar Lake |
Shelby |
Entirety (13 miles) |
Chlordane, Other Organics, Mercury |
Do not eat the fish |
Mississippi River |
Shelby |
MS line to just downstream of Meman Shelby State Park (31 mi) |
Chlordane, Other Organics, Mercury |
Do not eat the fish. Commerical fishing prohibited by TWRA. |
Nonconnah Creek |
Shelby |
Mile 0.0-1.8 (Horn Lake Rd.) |
Chlordane, Other Organics |
Do not eat the fish.
Advisory
ends at Horn Lake Road bridge.
|
Wolf River |
Shelby |
Mile 0.0-18.9 (Hwy.177, Germantown Rd.) |
Chlordane, Other Organics, Mercury |
Do not eat the fish. |
Woods Reservoir |
Franklin |
Entirety (3,908 acres) |
PCB's |
Catfish should not be eaten |
Buffalo River |
Humphreys Perry |
From the mouth upstream to Hwy. 438 (Mile 31.6) |
Mercury |
Precautionary advisory for smallmouthbass* |
Boone Reservoir |
Sullivan Washington
|
Entirety (4,400 acres) |
PCB's, Chlordane |
Precautionary advisory for carp and catfish* |
Chattanooga Creek |
Hamilton |
Mouth to GA state line (11.9 miles) |
PCBs, chlordane |
Fish should not be eaten.
Also, avoid contact with water.
|
East Fork of Poplar Creek including Poplar Creek embayment |
Anderson, Roane |
Mile 0.0-15.0 |
Mercury, PCB's |
Fish should not be eaten. Also avoid contact with water |
Emory River |
Roane, Morgan |
From Hwy. 27 near Harriman (mile 12.4) upstream to Camp Austin Road Bridge (Mile
21.8).
|
Mercury |
Precautionary advisory for all fish |
Fort Loudon Reservoir |
Loudon, Knox, Blount |
Entirety (14,600 acres) |
PCB's |
Commercial Fishing for catfish prohibited by TWRA. No catfish or largemouth bass
over two pounds should be eaten. Do not eat largemouth bass from the Little
River embayment
|
Hiwassee River |
Meigs, McMinn, Bradley |
From Highway 58 (mile 7.4) upstream to the railroad bridge just upstream of U.S.
Hwy 11 (Mile 18.9)
|
Mercury |
Precautionary advisory for largemouth bass* |
Holston River |
Hawkins Sullivan |
From the mouth of Poor Valley Creek embayment (mile 89.0) upstream to the
confluence of the North and South Forks of the Holston near Kingsport
|
Mercury |
Precautionary advisory for all fish* |
Melton Hill Reservoir |
Knox, Anderson |
Entirety (5,690 acres) |
PCBs |
Catfish should not be eaten. |
Nickajack Reservoir |
Hamilton, Marion |
Entirety (10,370 acres) |
PCB's |
Precautionary advisory for catfish.* |
Norris Reservoir |
Campbell, Anderson, Union, Claiborne, Grainger |
Clinch River portion. (Powell River embayment not included in advisory.)
(15213 acres
|
Mercury |
Precautionary advisory for largemouth bass |
North Fork Holston River |
Sullivan, Hawkins |
Mile 0.0-6.2 (VA stateline) |
Mercury |
Do not eat the fish. Advisory goes to TN/VA line. |
South Holston Reservoir |
Sullivan |
Portion within Tennessee (7,206 acres) |
Mercury |
Precautionary advisory for largemouth bass.* |
Tellico Reservoir |
Loudon, Monroe |
Entirety (16,500 acres) |
PCB's, Mercury |
Catfish should not be eaten |
Watauga Reservoir |
Carter, Johnson |
Entirety (6,427 acres) |
Mercury |
Precautionary advisory for largemouth bass and channel catfish* |
Watts Bar Reservoir |
Roane, Meigs, Rhea & Loudon |
TN River portion (38,000 acres) |
PCBs |
Catfish, striped bass, and hybrid (striped bass-white bass) should not be
eaten. Precautionary advisory* for white bass, sauger, carp, smallmouth buffalo,
and largemouth bass.
|
Watts Bar Reservior |
Roane, Anderson |
Clinch River arm (1,000 acres) |
PCBs |
Striped bass should not be eaten. Precautionary advisory for catfish
and sauger.*
|
Boone Reservoir |
Sullivan, Washington |
Entirety |
PCBs, chlordane |
Precautionary advisory for carp and catfish.* |
Pigeon River |
Cocke |
NC Line to Douglas Reservoir |
Dioxin |
Precautionary advisory for carp, catfish, and redbreast sunfish.* |
* Precautionary Advisory - Children, pregnant women, and nursing
mothers should not eat the fish species named. All other persons should
limit consumption of the named
species to one meal per month. |