What are YELLOW PERCH?
Yellow Perch are elongate, 10-25 cm (4-10 in), darkish, laterally compressed fish of the family Percidae, subfamily Percinae. Their backs and heads are green to olive, to golden brown; their sides are yellow-green to yellow with 7 dark bars; their bellies are grey to milky white. They are abundant from British Columbia eastward to Nova Scotia. Yellow Perch eat numerous insect larvae and nymphs, small molluscs, various aquatic crustacea and fish.
