. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. HABITS OF YELLOW PERCH IN WISCONSIN LAKES. By A. S. Pearse and Henrietta Achtenberg. INTRODUCTION. The )'ellow perch, Pcrca flavescens (Mitchill), is widely distributed throughout the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. "It is essentially a lake fish, but occurs also in running streams, most abundantly in the larger rivers and least so in creeks. â â ' * * 'As a game fish the yellow perch can be commended chiefly on account of the fact that anybody can catch it. It can be taken with hook and line any month in
. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Fisheries; Fish culture. HABITS OF YELLOW PERCH IN WISCONSIN LAKES. By A. S. Pearse and Henrietta Achtenberg. INTRODUCTION. The )'ellow perch, Pcrca flavescens (Mitchill), is widely distributed throughout the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. "It is essentially a lake fish, but occurs also in running streams, most abundantly in the larger rivers and least so in creeks. â â ' * * 'As a game fish the yellow perch can be commended chiefly on account of the fact that anybody can catch it. It can be taken with hook and line any month in the year and any sort of bait^grasshoppers, angleworms, grubs, small minnows,. Fig. I.âThe yellow perch, Pcrca fiavcsccns O-ritchill). pieces of mussel, or pieces of fish; and it will even rise, and freely, too, on occasion, to the artificial fly.' * * * It is easily taken through the ice in ;" System- atically the perch is related to the pikes and the darters and, like them, is largely carnivorous in its feeding habits. It belongs to a family of "highly organized, shapely, powerful, and active fishes, thoroughly equipped for a predatory life, and filling an important place in the ecological system of our inland ;* Wisconsin lakes in many localities furnish admirable habitats for perch, and those near ^Madison afford unusual opportunities for scientific study. The Wisconsin Geo- logical and Natural History Survey has collected very complete data on the contour of the lake bottoms, the aimual cycle of temperature changes, lake respiration, plankton, o Forbes and Richardson, 1908. p. 277. 297. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D. C. : Govt. Print. Off.
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