yellow perch

noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of yellow perch¹

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

Example Sentences

There, zebra mussels and quagga mussels have thrived and caused a major decline in the yellow perch fishery.

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Bosworth said he counted around 100 dead yellow perch along the Kirkland shoreline in early June and also found some dead sticklebacks, which are small, scaleless fish with spines.

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It also rose in yellow perch and other small fish that eat the zooplankton, and increased by about 40% in larger fish such as pike, which eat smaller fish.

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The loon egg contamination prompted the state to test the lake’s smallmouth bass and yellow perch.

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Based on popularity, the station narrowed the list down to the walleye, smallmouth bass, yellow perch, bluegill, channel catfish, crappie muskellunge and goldfish.

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