Product Description
Our Plastic Yellow Perch This hard plastic and colorful perch toy is well-made and realistic in its yellow color, detailed stripes and fins. Wonderfully proportioned, 2 7/8 inches long, it will fit nicely into a pond fish, river, or estuary diorama. Our yellow perch may be useful for a school project or as a party favor or novelty item. Check out our other perch and fish toys and gifts. We have a fine selection of colorful, realistic fish replicas: trout, bluegill, bass, muskies, crappies, perch, pike, and more! Great for dioramas!
When yellow perch (Perca flavescens) spawn in the spring, it's a community activity. After dark, the females begin laying eggs in long strands, spreading them over underwater branches and plants. Male yellow perch soon follow and fertilize the eggs. Some of the egg strands can reach up to eight feet in length; each strand contains between 10,000-40,000 eggs. In about three weeks, the young will hatch. It's fortunate there are so many of them because their parents are now long gone and pretty much everything - including other yellow perch - likes to eat these fish. Without yellow perch to eat, walleyes and largemouth bass populations wouldn't survive. They are also an important dietary staple of double-crested cormorants. Yellow perch like to travel in schools of 50-200 fish. The schools are arranged by size and age and form a spindle-shape - fat in the middle and tapered at both ends. Similar to human schools, yellow perch come together during the day and disperse when evening falls. Yellow perch live only in North America. They range as far north as the Mackenzie River in Canada down to the Savannah River in the Southeastern U.S. Other than each each other, they also like to eat small fish, worms, crayfish, snails, leeches, and fish eggs.