. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME 409 SACRAMENTO PERCH By George Neale (With three photographs by author) THE SACRAMENTO PERCH {Archoplites interruptus) is but little known or even recognized by the younger generation oi' anglers. Dr. David Starr Jordan says, "It is a large and gamy fish, valued and interesting as being the only fresh water fish of the nature of perch or bass, native to the west of the Rocky Moun- ; It is said
. California fish and game. Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons. CALIFORNIA PISH AND GAME 409 SACRAMENTO PERCH By George Neale (With three photographs by author) THE SACRAMENTO PERCH {Archoplites interruptus) is but little known or even recognized by the younger generation oi' anglers. Dr. David Starr Jordan says, "It is a large and gamy fish, valued and interesting as being the only fresh water fish of the nature of perch or bass, native to the west of the Rocky Moun- ; It is said that their numbers have been greatly reduced by the perch eating the catfish and their stomachs being torn by the sharp pectoral fins. To some extent, this may be true, but it is the opinion of the writer, who has known these fish intimately for more than forty years, that the depletion is caused by the catfish and carp eating the spawn of the perch. I have made some interesting experiments with the egg of spawn- eating fishes. Of course all the experiments have been made in ati. rig. 114. Sacramento perch recently rescued from Lake Chabot were planted in this fine propagating pond near Sacramento. Picture shows north end of lake. aquarium and those fish which ate may have been forced by hunger to do so. The black basses and crappies will starve before they will cat spawn, but it has been demonstrated that carp, catfish and bluegill will eat the spawn. The spawning habits of the Sacramento perch are unlike the black bass, which prepare their nest on the sand or mud at the bottom. This particular perch spawns among the aquatic growth, old limbs of trees and branches sunk in the water. My experience with these fish is that they are less aggressive and pugnacious at the spawning time in pro- tecting their spawn and young than are the bass and some others of the spiny-rayed tribe of fresh-water fish. Consequently, the spawn is more or less unprotected during the spawning period. 4
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