. 5 cm (from Goode 1884) Common Name: silver perch Scientific Name: Bairdiella chrysoura Other Common Names: butterfish (Springer and Woodburn 1960); yellowtail (Gunter 1945); silver croaker, mamselle blanche (French), and corvineta blanca (Spanish) (Fischer 1978). Classification (Robins et al. 1991) Phylum: Chordata Class: Osteichthyes Order: Perciformes Family: Sciaenidae Value Commercial: Catches of silver perch are mostly inci- dental in fisheries for more important commercial spe- cies. The principal gear used is pound nets, seines, and bottom trawls. Separate statistics are not reported
. 5 cm (from Goode 1884) Common Name: silver perch Scientific Name: Bairdiella chrysoura Other Common Names: butterfish (Springer and Woodburn 1960); yellowtail (Gunter 1945); silver croaker, mamselle blanche (French), and corvineta blanca (Spanish) (Fischer 1978). Classification (Robins et al. 1991) Phylum: Chordata Class: Osteichthyes Order: Perciformes Family: Sciaenidae Value Commercial: Catches of silver perch are mostly inci- dental in fisheries for more important commercial spe- cies. The principal gear used is pound nets, seines, and bottom trawls. Separate statistics are not reported for this species. Occasionally, large individuals are marketed fresh for human consumption (Fischer 1978, Manooch 1984). Recreational: Silver perch are caught on hook and line by anglers, but are not specifically sought. Catches are usually incidental, and often discarded due to small size (Fischer 1978, Manooch 1984, Shipp 1986). Sil- ver perch are sometimes used as bait by recreational fishermen (Fischer 1978, Manooch 1984). Its silvery color makes it an attractive bait, but it is uncommon in large numbers for capture. An estimated 305,000 silver perch were caught in Gulf of Mexico waters (excluding Texas) during 1991 by recreational fisher- men (Van Voorhees et al. 1992). Indicator of Environmental Stress: Hansen and Wilson (1970) recorded concentrations of DDT and its me- tabolites from to in 0-class fish from Florida's Pensacola estuary. Ecological: The silver perch is primarily a benthic carnivore that consumes a diet consisting mostly of crustaceans (Killam et al. 1992). It can be an abundant species in estuaries (Sheridan et al. 1984), and there- fore play a key role in the ecology of a system. Because of its abundance, it is likely to be the prey of numerous piscivorous fish species (Killam et al. 1992). Range Overall: The silver perch occurs in coastal waters of the western Atlantic from the Gulf of Maine off of Massa- chusetts to southern Florida and throug
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