COLUMBUS, Ohio – Angler surveys are underway at many of Ohio’s popular public inland waterways and Lake Erie, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife.
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Lake Erie yellow perch numbers crash in Central Basin: NE Ohio fishing report for weekend of April 2-4
Updated Apr 01, 2021;
Posted Apr 01, 2021
The Ohio Division of Wildlife has announced a lower daily yellow perch bag limit from 30 to 10 fish starting May 1 in the Central Basin of Lake Erie and dropped the Ohio commercial fishing quota by 70 percent in 2021 as the perch population has declined.D Arcy Egan, Special to cleveland.com
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CLEVELAND, Ohio The Lake Erie Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission announced its quotas last week, and a startling decline in yellow perch populations in central and eastern Lake Erie is requiring major changes in this year’s allowable harvest.
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Lake Erie yellow perch are important to sport and commercial fishermen, but their numbers have plummeted in recent years in the deeper waters of the Central Basin of Lake Erie. That includes Cleveland and Lorain, for many decades two of the most popular popular perch fishing areas. (Photo by D’Arcy Patrick Egan)
A declining population of Lake Erie’s popular yellow perch in the Central Basin has prompted a drastic reduction in the daily limit from 30 yellow perch to just 10 yellow perch from Huron to Fairport Harbor beginning on Saturday, May 1. The lower daily bag limit was mandated by the Ohio Division of Wildlife.