Here are the 2023 sport fish consumption advisories for Northeast Ohio's lakes, rivers and streams, showing where you should eat fewer fish or none at all due to contamination from mercury or PCBs.
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.