Yellow perch might be recovering from decimation

[Steve Arend]

Fish count for Lake Michigan jumps in 2005 after 90% plunge

By DAN EGAN

Posted: Mar. 13, 2006

When Lake Michigan makes headlines these days, it seems the news is almost always bad. Overflowing sewers. Closed beaches. Crashing fish populations.

But a bit of good news is flowing out of the world's fifth-largest freshwater lake - yellow perch could be on the rebound. Recent state and federal fish surveys show that the 2005 class of perch, perhaps the lake's most popular native fish in terms of eating and angling, is the largest in more than a decade

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