PISHES OF NEW YORK 503 



Creek at Pultneyville 



Great Sodus bay 



Four Mile creek, 1 niile above mouth 



Lakeview hotel, 7 m. n. e. of Oswego 



Three Mile creek, near Oswego 



Long pond, Charlotte 



Salt brook, 1^ miles above Nine Mile point. 



The yellow perch is one of the most abundant fishes of Lake 

 Chaniplain and in the mouths of rivers falling into that lake. 



The fish abounds in the parks of New York and Brooklyn. 

 In the Hudson Highlands Dr Mearns reported it as abundant 

 in the Hudson as well as in all of the larger mountain lakes 

 and ponds. It habitually frequents Poplopen's creek from its 

 source to its mouth. In the Hudson, he was informed, it is 

 unusual to take specimens weighing more than 1 pound; but in 

 Poplopeu's pond he has taken a number that weighed about 2 

 pounds each. In the same pond Jerome Denna caught two 

 which weighed 2^ to 3 pounds each; and a fisherman named 

 Samuel Runnels assured Dr Mearns that he had taken a yellow 

 perch there which weighed 4| pounds. The fish continue to 

 feed in that region throughout the winter. Eugene Smith ob- 

 tained the fish in Greenwood lake, Orange co., and in Hacken- 

 sack streams, in Rockland county. 



The species reaches a length of 1 foot and weight of two 

 pounds. It is one of the best known of our food fishes and has 

 excellent game qualities. Its flesh, however, is rather soft and 

 coarse and is far inferior to that of the black bass and other 

 members of the sunfish family. It is a voracious feeder, its 

 food consisting of small fishes, crustaceans and other animal 

 matter. 



The yellow perch spawns early in the spring. The eggs are 

 adhesive and inclosed in thin translucent strips of adhesive 

 mucus. The spawning of this species was described by William 

 P. Seal in Forest and Stream of Ap. 17, 1890. The spawning- 

 season extends from December to April. Mr Seal describes the 

 egg mass as having the shape of a long tube, closed at the ends 



