The Tennessee River begins upstream of Knoxville, Tennessee. The river flows 652 miles south then west across northern Alabama and a small portion of northern Mississippi before turning north to Kentucky where the river discharges into the Ohio River only miles upstream from the Mississippi River.

Holston River

The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from southwest Kentucky to north Alabama and from northeast Mississippi to the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina. The border of the valley is known as the Tennessee Valley Divide.

Ohio River

Duck River

Norris Lake

According to WHNT News, a family found what they believed was a shark at Talucah Landing on the Tennessee River south of Huntsville. It was identified by a representative of the Tennessee Aquarium as likely being a spiny dogfish–a coastal shark that has never been recorded in freshwater.

Catfish

The Department recommends that residents and visitors continue to eat fish from Tennessee rivers and reservoirs, but they should also follow the published advisories on consumption hazards in individual reservoirs. Approximately 124,000 reservoir acres and 368 river miles are currently posted due to contaminated fish.

Fish

• Longear Sunfish. This is a beautiful fish with red-orange spots and blue-green iridescent markings.
• Channel Catfish. Considered most popular for its delicious eating on the kitchen table, the channel catfish are plentiful in large streams.
• Spotted Gar.
• Largemouth Bass.
• Paddlefish.
• Black Crappie.

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Eat panfish, such as bluegill, perch, stream trout, and smelt. They feed on insects and other aquatic life and are less likely to contain high levels of harmful pollutants. Eat fewer fatty fish, such as lake trout, or fish that feed on the bottoms of lakes and streams such as catfish and carp.

6 Fish to Avoid

• Bluefin Tuna.
• Chilean Sea Bass (aka Patagonian Toothfish)
• Grouper.
• Monkfish.
• Orange Roughy.
• Salmon (farmed)

During our study, skinless fillets of bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus, contained as much as 0.19 ?? g Hg/g wet weight (1.06 ?? g Hg/g dry weight). Maximum concentrations of mercury in other fish species varied from 0.097 ??

Examples. Species of puffer fish (the family Tetraodontidae) are the most poisonous in the world, and the second most poisonous vertebrate after the golden dart frog. The giant moray is a reef fish at the top of the food chain. Like many other apex reef fish, it is likely to cause ciguatera poisoning if eaten.

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