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I have known the spawning to extend 
into the month of June. 
The eggs of the perch are not de¬ 
posited on the pebbles of a regular 
nest, as made by the sunfishes, and 
the calico bass, but are strung out in 
the midst of the grasses and vegetation 
of the water, to the stems of which 
the gelatinous string is securely at¬ 
tached. Often this string appears 
some two feet under the surface, some¬ 
times near the bottom, but always it 
is strung out, free from contact with 
the sand or muddy floor of the lake. 
This peculiarity in the spawning of the 
perch may be news to many. 
By keeping watchful about the time 
you think the yellow perch should 
spawn, you will see those whitish trans¬ 
parent strings wound in and out 
through the water vegetation. After 
hatching out, the yellow perch grows 
fast, attaining to the length of an inch 
in a month and at the end of twelve 
months, sometimes appears over five 
inches in length; the average length 
being slightly under that, dependent 
upon food and water conditions. 
As a pond fish, raised both for home 
consumption and for the market, it 
is of course hard to equal the perch 
as a subject to concentrate upon. I 
know of several instances where a 
great success has been made of the 
venture. Of course, there are fewer 
who concentrate on the perch, as a 
pond fish, than those who give their 
attention to the sunfishes and trout. 
Meehan says: “Death is always busy 
among young fish hatched in huge 
quantities from the eggs of a single 
parent. Loss from other causes than 
death is also great among minute fry, 
in the majority of cases at least 90 
per cent. This would be appalling and 
discouraging were not the spawn 
furnished by the female yellow perch, 
almost limitless in amount. A string 
of 50,000 eggs will yield, after all 
losses, about 5,000 fish, a year old, 
probably three times the yield in 
nature. A single hatching-jar would 
hold in the neighborhood of 600,000 
eggs, so that one jar alone would yield 
about 60,000 yearlings. Owing to the 
great loss during the first few weeks 
after hatching, it is necessary to stock 
very heavily a pond intended for rear¬ 
ing purposes. The amount of yellow 
perch fry introduced, should be at 
least sixty or seventy times the number 
of yearlings which it would comfort¬ 
ably carry. This is an important point 
because it is not necessary to do any 
sorting the first year. Although a 
carnivorous fish, the growth is more 
nearly even in yellow perch than in 
its distant relative, the black bass, and 
" the loss from cannibalism is, therefore, 
not as great.” 
In the winter the perch go into the 
deeper waters and hug the bottom, 
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