Bilgewater
4/29/2016 9:41:00 PMRip Lipper:
Perch are the most abundant biomass in American. Matt Polacek, a WDFW biologist, told me:
“From 2012 lakewide gill netting catch (nearshore) the species with the highest biomass were Yellow Perch (40%), Rock Bass (31%), and Rainbow Trout and Smallmouth Bass (12% each). Our offshore netting in showed that yellow perch also had the highest biomass (88%) followed by Rainbow Trout and Kokanee (5% each).
We repeated the offshore survey in 2014, which indicated yellow perch (65%), Kokanee (20%) and Cutthroat Trout (12%) had the highest biomass of the total catch.”
I suspect it would make no difference at all how many perch you caught and kept, ready to spawn or not. I also suspect that because of their large population, perch consume a fair number of the 450,000 kokanee fry that WDFW plants annually in American, usually in June.
Thank you for the report and photo.
Perch are the most abundant biomass in American. Matt Polacek, a WDFW biologist, told me:
“From 2012 lakewide gill netting catch (nearshore) the species with the highest biomass were Yellow Perch (40%), Rock Bass (31%), and Rainbow Trout and Smallmouth Bass (12% each). Our offshore netting in showed that yellow perch also had the highest biomass (88%) followed by Rainbow Trout and Kokanee (5% each).
We repeated the offshore survey in 2014, which indicated yellow perch (65%), Kokanee (20%) and Cutthroat Trout (12%) had the highest biomass of the total catch.”
I suspect it would make no difference at all how many perch you caught and kept, ready to spawn or not. I also suspect that because of their large population, perch consume a fair number of the 450,000 kokanee fry that WDFW plants annually in American, usually in June.
Thank you for the report and photo.