Does salmon have a high mercury level?!
Most fish that contain higher levels of mercury are carnivorous bottom feeding fish... like mackeral, tuna, shark. These are all piscivorous type fish...(fish eating fish). The mercury starts at the lowest levels of the food chain in aquatic ecosystems...and accumulates higher concentration the further up the chain...aquatic vegetation > microorganisms > crustations > fish >>ending with piscivorous types of fish.
Answers: Salmon have the lowest mercury levels of all fish.
Most fish that contain higher levels of mercury are carnivorous bottom feeding fish... like mackeral, tuna, shark. These are all piscivorous type fish...(fish eating fish). The mercury starts at the lowest levels of the food chain in aquatic ecosystems...and accumulates higher concentration the further up the chain...aquatic vegetation > microorganisms > crustations > fish >>ending with piscivorous types of fish.
Salmon has a low mercury count. Use the second link to calculate your mercury exposure by weight, what fish you will eat this week, and how much.