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The trout-perch possess characteristics similar to both the trout and the perch. [3] They are an important source of food for many predator fish such as walleye , northern pike , and lake trout . They are not a major human fishery, but are occasionally used as a bait fish.
The parasite does not infect people, but can infect many important sport and forage fish including the yellow perch. It does not kill the infected fish, but the flesh of a severely infected fish becomes inedible when the fish dies and the spores are then spread through the water to infect another fish. That concerns commercial fisherman in the ...
Perch is a common name for freshwater fish from the genus Perca, which belongs to the family Percidae of the large order Perciformes. The name comes from Greek : πέρκη , romanized : perke , meaning the type species of this genus, the European perch ( P. fluviatilis ).
The European perch (Perca fluviatilis), also known as the common perch, redfin perch, big-scaled redfin, English perch, Euro perch, Eurasian perch, Eurasian river perch, Hatch, poor man's rockfish or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the perch, is a predatory freshwater fish native to Europe and North Asia. It is the type species of the ...
Perciformes (/ ˈ p ɜːr s ɪ ˌ f ɔːr m iː z /), also called the Acanthopteri, is an order or superorder of ray-finned fish in the clade Percomorpha. Perciformes means "perch-like".". Among the well-known members of this group are perches and darters (), and also sea basses and groupers
The family contains more than 200 species in 11 genera. The perches and their relatives are in this family; well-known species include the walleye, sauger, ruffe, and three species of perch. However, small fish known as darters are also a part of this family.
VHS disease in a gizzard shad. Viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) is a deadly infectious fish disease caused by Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus. It afflicts over 50 species of freshwater and marine fish in several parts of the Northern Hemisphere. [1] Different strains of the virus occur in different regions, and affect different species.
The Percopsiformes / p ɜːr ˈ k ɒ p s ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / are a small order of freshwater teleost fishes measuring less than 20 cm in length, comprising the trout-perch and its allies. [2]: 319 It contains just ten extant species, grouped into seven genera and three families. Five of these genera are monotypic. [3]