Are perch in peril in parts of Lake Erie? Ohio Division of Wildlife biologists weigh in

For many of us, fishing for yellow perch on Lake Erie was the easiest way to fill the freezer each fall for a year’s worth of fish dinners. Beginning on Labor Day weekend, the perch fleet assembled over the flats from the Michigan shoreline to Vermilion until the end of the boating season.
Before the walleye fishing rigs began appearing in the late 1980s, most Lake Erie boats in Ohio were docked in marinas that lined the shorelines throughout this area.

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