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Freshwater Fishing

Freshwater Fishing

Fish Consumption Advisories

Fish Consumption Advisories & Commercial Fishing Bans

Stream Reach

Chemical

Date Issued

Action

Archusa Water Park in Clark County

Mercury

Sept. 1996

See #1 Below

Bogue Chitto River­

Mercury

May 1995

See #1 Below

Delta Region / All waters east of the Mississippi River levee and west of the bluff hills except for Steele Bayou, Black Bayou, Bee Lake, RecCon Lake (Rainey’s Lake), and Lake Charlie Capps.

Toxaphene, DDT

June 2001

See #4 Below

Enid Reservoir

Mercury

May 1995

See #1 Below

Escatawpa River from the Alabama state line to Interstate 10.

Mercury

May 1995

See #1 Below

Grenada Lake & Yalobusha River from the dam downstream to Hwy 8 & 35 at Holcomb.

Mercury

June 2001

See #1 Below

Gulf of Mexico

Mercury

May 1998

See #2 Below

Lake Susie, Oxbow Lake of Old Tallahatchie River in Panola County west of Batesville

PCBs

Nov. 1989

See #3 Below

Little Conehoma Creek & Yockanookany River in Attala & Leake counties. From Highway 35 near Kosciusko Downstream to Highway 429 ­near Thomastown (approx. 15 miles).

PCBs

June 1987

See #3 Below

Pascagoula River

Mercury

Sept. 1996

See #1 Below

Pearl River Hwy 25 (Leake County), near Carthage, downstream to Leake County Water Park

Mercury

June 2001

See #1 Below

Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge (All Waters)

Toxaphene, DDT

1975

See #3 Below

Yockanookany River

Mercury

May 1995

See #1 Below

Yocona River From Enid Reservoir to Little Tallahatchie River

Mercury

Sept. 1996

See #1 Below