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Article: Yellow perch might be recovering from decimation: Fish count for Lake Michigan jumps in 2005 after 90% plunge.
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2006
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Byline: Dan Egan
Mar. 14--When Lake Michigan makes headlines these days, it seems the news is almost always bad. Overflowing sewers. Closed beaches. Crashing fish populations. But a bit of good news is flowing out of the world's fifth-largest freshwater lake -- yellow perch could be on the rebound. Recent state and federal fish surveys show that the 2005 class of perch, perhaps the lake's most popular native fish in terms of eating and angling, is the largest in more than a decade. The perch population in Wisconsin's Lake Michigan waters had dropped as much as 90% since the 1980s, likely because of a combination of factors, including a disruption in the food ...