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Article: YELLOW PERCH FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHR FOR '99
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- January 2, 1999
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Outdoors
As a sportsman taking a retrospective of the year 1998, one of the most positive signs of the future was the sighting of juvenile yellow perch in Lake Michigan. By now most all of us are aware of the downfall of the perch, unarguably one of the most sought after gamefish by local anglers. For Lake Michigan biologists, it still remains somewhat of a mystery to identifying one specific cause for the perch decline, whether it was the introduction of exotic species such as zebra mussels to Lake Michigan or by exploiting to fishery due to over harvest by commercial netters or another unknown.
Up until last year, ...