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Article: Biologists talk over yellow perch decline Unknown predator may be killing baby fish
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 13, 1999
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If it wasn't a net, then it was a hook.
Now, if it isn't a lack of something to eat, it's an abundance of
something to eat it.
That sums up the last, lost decade for yellow perch in Lake
Michigan. The nasty, brutish and perilously short lives of the fish
gained the spotlight Saturday at a conference held in the S.C.
Johnson Golden Rondelle Theater.
Biologists from three of Lake Michigan's adjoining states --
Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan -- discussed the plight of perch,
whose population has been decimated during the 1990s. Although
yellow perch numbers rebounded slightly in the lake last year, a ban
on commercial fishing and tight regulation of sport fishing remain in
effect.
Researchers ...