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	The True Perch of New York
		Yellow perch, walleye, and sauger are larger perches that prefer the water of large streams, rivers, ponds, and lakes.
		Yellow perch, walleye, and sauger reproduce (spawn) during early spring.
		Unlike their cousins the walleye, yellow perch, and sauger, darters do not have a well-developed swim bladder (used for floating) which is helpful to their life on the stream bottom.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/fish/fishspecs/perchtxt.html (1700 words)

	Yellow Perch - WDNR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Distribution: The yellow perch occurs in all three drainage basins in Wisconsin (Lake Michigan, Mississippi River, and Lake Superior), in all of the state's boundary waters, and in Lakes Michigan and Superior.
		Because the yellow perch is a glacial lakes species, it is widely distributed except in the unglaciated region of southwestern Wisconsin.
		Yellow perch are random spawners, and do not construct nests, nor do they guard their eggs and their young.
	www.dnr.state.wi.us /org/water/fhp/fish/3jyperch.htm (225 words)

	Yellow Perch Fact Sheet
		Yellow perch are members of the family, Percidae, and their general coloring tends to be brassy green to golden yellow on their sides and white to yellow on their belly.
		Yellow perch populations are targeted during spring sampling, where length frequency and sex data are collected in the Chester, Choptank, Patuxent, and Nanticoke rivers.
		Yellow perch are an important sportfish in Maryland, especially in the Chesapeake Bay area and Deep Creek Lake, because they inhabit a vast territory, a wide variety of habitats, are a schooling fish, and congregate near shore in the spring.
	www.dnr.state.md.us /fisheries/education/yellowperch/yperch.html (1208 words)

	Warner Nature Center : Yellow Perch FAQ
		Yellow perch thrive in clear water near aquatic vegetation, be it in lakes, ponds, or streams.
		Of the yellow perch eggs that hatch and become juveniles, the number that survive to adulthood depends on the predator-perch ratio in the lake.
		Yellow perch are preyed upon by walleye, lake trout, large and small-mouth bass, northern pike, and burbot, to name a few; since these are often selectively fished in favor of yellow perch, their numbers often drop to the point where perch can completely take over a lake.
	www.smm.org /warnernaturecenter/programs/faq_yellow_perch.php (462 words)

	Yellow Perch
		Perch fishing is a favorite pastime during late summer through fall when perch are concentrated in large schools nearshore and are caught relatively easily.
		Yellow perch spawn in the spring over a variety of depths and habitat types ranging from shallow gravel bars and reefs, to sandy, vegetated embayments, to hard mud bottoms out to depths of 40 feet.
		In the Western Basin during the summer, yellow perch tend to move offshore to 30- to 40- foot depths.
	www.shutupandfish.com /walleye/perch/perch.htm (445 words)

	YELLOW PERCH
		Yellow perch are easily identified by the goldenyellow coloration on their sides from which they get their most familiar common name as well as their scientific name, flavescens (yellow).
		Yellow perch are about 3.5 times as long as they are deep, having deeper bodies than either the walleye or sauger.
		Yellow perch have ctenold scales (having a back margin with a comblike row of miniature, needlelike teeth) over their entire bodies, with the exception of their opercles (gill covers).
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Geyser/7807/outdoor/perch.htm (2554 words)

	Yellow perch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The yellow perch is in the same family as the walleye and sauger, but in a different family from the white perch, another common freshwater fish.
		Yellow Perch are one of the finest flavored of all panfish, and this has led to misuse of their name in the restaurant industry.
		Perch, unlike fish of prey, are gregarious, and in the winter months, when the frosts and floods have destroyed and carried away the beds of weeds, they congregate together in the pools and eddies, and are then to be angled for with greatest success is greatly varied usually starting at dusk until 12 o' clock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yellow_perch (640 words)

	Yellow Perch/Fish of the Great Lakes by Wisconsin Sea Grant
		Perch are not scrappy adversaries like trout, but these full-bodied, large-finned panfish are a favorite and relatively easy target for breakwater anglers.
		Perch are especially esteemed for their "inner qualities" -- a flesh that is white, flakey and delicious.
		In Lake Michigan, the perch catch averaged a respectable 2.4 million pounds a year from the time the first records were kept in 1889 through 1970.
	www.seagrant.wisc.edu /greatlakesfish/yellowperch.html (280 words)

	Yellow Perch Fish Species
		Yellow perch are also known as raccoon perch, ringed perch, lake perch, and redfin perch.
		The largest yellow perch are found in open water areas of large lakes with fairly clear water, a firm bottom and sparse to moderate vegetation.
		Yellow perch prefer water temperature from 65 ° to 72° F. Yello Perch spawn in the spring, normally at water temperatures from 43 °to 48° F. Gelatinous strings of eggs are deposited over weeds or brush in the shallows of lakes or in tributary streams.
	www.pvisuals.com /fishing/species/yellow_perch.html (286 words)

	In search of perch
		Perch were measured and weighed to determine when in their life cycle the fish are most vulnerable to disease, predation or fishing.
		In 1994, the Lake Michigan Technical Committee formed the Yellow Perch Task Group to encourage and coordinate multistate research that is investigating the dynamics of the perch population.
		Yellow perch were found to be reproducing throughout the lake, but the numbers were highly variable.
	www.wnrmag.com /stories/2000/feb00/perch.htm (2133 words)

	DNR - Yellow Perch Perca flavescens
		The yellow perch and walleye, members of the Percidae or perch family, are characterized by a dorsal fin, which is completely divided into a spiny and a separate soft-rayed portion.
		Perch average adult length is 4-10 inches, with a weight of 4-10 ounces, although adult size is quite variable.
		Great Lakes perch populations were severely crowded and reduced in the late 1960s by the alewife, but perch are adaptable, and have staged a comeback that shows us they are here to stay.
	www.michigan.gov /dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-45696--,00.html (464 words)

	Fishes of Minnesota-Yellow perch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Yellow perch are more abundant in lakes and backwaters of large rivers than they are in swift-flowing streams.
		The yellow perch is a common prey to many piscivorous (fish-eating) fishes, including largemouth and smallmouth bass, northern pike, musky, walleye, bowfins, burbot, lake trout, and others.
		Yellow perch are usually not the sport fish most anglers try for, but they are one that most anglers catch.
	www.gen.umn.edu /research/fish/fishes/yellow_perch.html (702 words)

	yellow perch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		In 1990, young-of-the-year yellow perch were transferred from Grand St.Marys Lake Hatchery ponds to an indoor facility and accustomed to feed on formulated diets.
		Yellow perch larvae were stocked in ponds; studies on weaning fry to formulated diets in ponds and in tanks along with effects of density and loading were conducted.
		Both temperature and light are involved in maturation of yellow perch and the gamete quality (both eggs and sperm) are affected by the rate of accelerated maturation.
	extension.osu.edu /~aquacult/yellow.html (431 words)

	Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
		Yellow perch are commonly found in the Great Lakes drainage and have been introduced to waters beyond their original range.
		Perch are most numerous where there are expanses of open water and moderate amounts of vegetation.
		Perch show a preference for the natural food upon which they are feeding at the time.
	www.mnr.gov.on.ca /MNR/fishing/perch.html (135 words)

	Assabet River Stream Watch
		Habitat requirements and life history: The yellow perch is a native fish and a true perch that inhabits nearly every river, lake and pond in Massachusetts.
		Yellow perch are vary adaptable but are common in clear, open water with moderate vegetation.
		Yellow perch spawn in early spring, broadcasting their eggs in long, gelatinous strands that adhere to aquatic vegetation or settle to the bottom.
	www.assabetriver.org /streamwatch/yellowperch.html (165 words)

	Yellow Perch: Nature Snapshots from Minnesota DNR: Minnesota DNR
		The yellow perch is one of the most commonly caught fish in Minnesota.
		Like sunfish and bluegills, perch are considered "panfish," or fish commonly caught to be cooked in a frying pan and eaten.
		Yellow perch spawn in early May in southern Minnesota and in mid-May in northern lakes.The eggs hatch after two or three weeks.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /snapshots/fish/yellowperch.html (297 words)

	Lake Michigan Yellow Perch
		Yellow perch evolved in much smaller bodies of water and that evolutionary process produced the current life history in which the tiniest yellow perch, newly hatched, spend about 40 days or more adrift in the water column.
		The larval perch were collected by towing for 15 minutes with a large net (2 m wide and 1 m deep) at the surface of the lake at night on the dates indicated.
		Yellow perch are schooling fish, which causes great variation in catch from day to day.
	www.glwi.uwm.edu /people/jjanssen/perch2002/index.html (1221 words)

	Yellow Perch
		Yellow Perch are perhaps the most frequently caught sport fish in Michigan.
		Perch are school-running fish, and you should drift or troll and try various places and depths of water until you begin to catch them.
		Perch can be very delicate biters, so watch closely, set the hook firmly, and keep a steady pressure on the line as you pull them in.
	www.danasresort.com /yellow_perch.htm (277 words)

	Yellow Perch Fishing Tips (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Yellow perch are one of the smaller varieties of this panfish species, typically ranging from less than one pound to about 2 lbs.
		Yellow perch are fun to catch because they are actually a pretty good eating fish, if you catch a mess of them.
		The yellow perch is an excellent fish for the beginning angler to go after because it is so ubiquitous and is caught with regularity without using any particular skill or technique.
	www.fishing-tackle-4u.com.cob-web.org:8888 /90-yellow-perch.html (355 words)

	Yellow Perch Webpage
		The yellow perch is an important food fish and ecological fish species in the midwest.
		The yellow perch is one of the primary fish species we work with in addition to zebrafish and brook trout.
		Yellow perch (lanes B and C) and brook trout (lane D) pituitary samples were also analyzed.
	www.mbl.edu /goetz/perca.html (1033 words)

	Yellow Perch
		Zebra mussels increase the biomass of benthic invertebrates which juvenile and adult yellow perch feed on, therefore improve the growth of the fish.
		Yellow perch are also piscivorous preferring shiners and minnows.
		In turn, Yellow Perch is, in the ecology of many rivers and lakes, of inestimable value as the prey of larger fish.
	www.rook.org /earl/bwca/nature/fish/percaflav.html (852 words)

	Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
		Yellow perch have reduced the food supply for lake trout by preying on young Utah chubs.
		It is important to remember that yellow perch are closely associated with aquatic vegetation.
		The most common rig for yellow perch is to tic on a small (I/I6- to 1/8-oz.).
	www.wildlife.utah.gov /fishing/fish_lake/yellow_perch.html (925 words)

	Yellow_perch
		Yellow perch are native to the northern United States east of the Rocky Mountains, and in Atlantic Coast watersheds south to South Carolina.
		Yellow perch are often found in cool, clear lakes, with a sandy or gravelly bottom and rooted underwater vegetation.
		Yellow perch are considered shallow-water dwellers and are not usually caught more than 30 feet deep.
	www.ncwildlife.org /pg03_Fishing/profiles/pages/Yellow_perch.htm (360 words)

	April 2002 - Lake Erie Perch Fishing
		While some anglers fish for yellow perch spring through fall, the traditional perch fishing months are August through October when perch are concentrated in large schools near shore.
		Yellow perch tend to move offshore in the summer months, moving closer to shore as waters cool in the fall (10 to 20 foot depths in the western basin, and 20 to 40 foot or more depths in the central basin.)
		Yellow perch are well distributed, with traditional hot spots located across the entire lake.
	www.dnr.state.oh.us /news/apr02/0423perch.htm (605 words)

	NJDEP Division of Fish & Wildlife - Yellow Perch
		Yellow perch are one of the premier species targeted each winter by ice fishermen.
		Yellow perch can be found in rivers moving upstream in the early spring.
		Yellow perch are active all year long, however the cooler months of September through May are probably the best.
	www.state.nj.us /dep/fgw/fish_yellow_perch.htm (221 words)

	Perch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Perch are freshwater fish that live in waters and streams of North America and Canada.
		Yellow perch is a popular sport fish, usually sold whole.
		When well-wrapped, perch can be frozen for up to two months in a refrigerator freezer compartment and three to four months in a deep-freeze.
	www.kroger.com /hn/Food_Guide/Perch.htm (983 words)

	Yellow Perch - Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
		Yellow perch, more commonly known simply as perch, are not native to Montana.
		Perch are usually found within a foot or two of the bottom, so begin fishing there.
		The yellow perch is an especially good fish to write about for the winter issue of the MAY Club, since winter is one of the best times to catch yellow perch.
	fwp.mt.gov /education/fishingeducation/yellowperch.html (1020 words)

	Perch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Perca is the genus of fish referred to as perch or yellow perch, a group of freshwater fish belonging to the family Percidae.
		Perch, of which there are three species in different geographical areas, lend their name to the largest order of vertebrates: the Perciformes, from the Greek perke meaning perch, and the Latin forma meaning shape.
		The Yellow perch (Perca flavescens), smaller and paler than the European perch, is found in the United States and Canada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perch (378 words)

	Yellow Perch in Alabama
		Dorsal and caudal fins are olive yellow; pectoral fins silvery orange or yellow.
		Yellow perch bones were also recovered from an archaeological excavation in Mobile dating to French occupation in 1702-20 (Sheldon and Cottier, 1983).
		Note: In Alabama, it is illegal to stock or move a yellow perch or any fish, mussel, snail or crayfish to any public water without a permit.
	www.outdooralabama.com /fishing/freshwater/fish/perch/yellow (634 words)

	Freshwater Fish Facts - Alabama Perch
		Walleye, sauger and yellow perch are three members of the perch family commonly caught by anglers in Alabama.
		Yellow perch have been introduced to the Tennessee River, Chattahoochee, Tallapoosa and Tombigbee Rivers in Alabama.
		Yellow perch caught on a yellow jig in Thurlow.
	www.outdooralabama.com /fishing/freshwater/fish/perch (271 words)

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