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Where to catch Yellow Perch. The yellow perch is widespread species in the northern United States and in Canada. Although it occurs in nearly every U.S. state today, due to stocking, it is sparsely distributed in the South and through most of the West and Midwest.
Males reach sexual maturity in one to three years; females in three to four. Because yellow perch congregate in small stretches of streams when spawning, they are vulnerable to a variety of threats and acid rain to loss of spawning habitat to overfishing. Overall, the Chesapeake Bay population of yellow perch is relatively stable, with populations most prevalent in the Upper Bay.