yellow perch


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yellow perch

n.
A North American perch (Perca flavescens) having yellowish sides with dark vertical bars, valued as a food fish.
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yel′low perch′


n.
a North American perch, Percaflavescens, having a yellowish body with dark brown vertical bars.
[1795–1805, Amer.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.yellow perch - North American perchyellow perch - North American perch      
perch - spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes
genus Perca, Perca - type genus of the Percidae
perch - any of numerous fishes of America and Europe
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"The greatest difficulty in recent years has been the diminishing supply of yellow perch coming out of Lake Erie - the predominant lake for the supply of wild-caught yellow perch," McCowan explains.
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Leaves drifting on top of the water, we watched bobbers do their thing as we waited for big yellow perch. Sometimes there were bullheads and sheepshead.
Early stories from Oneida Lake tell of ice fishermen building wind breaks out of burbot they caught, believing that removing them would help the more favorable walleye and yellow perch populations.