White perch
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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = White perch | image = Morone americana (line art).jpg | image_width = 250px | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Actinopterygii | ordo = Perciformes | familia = Moronidae | genus = Morone | species = M. americana | binomial = Morone americana | binomial_authority = (Gmelin, 1789) }}
The white perch, Morone americana, is a fish of the temperate bass family Moronidae, notable as a food and game fish of eastern North America.
Generally pale compared to similar types (thus the name), it has been reported up to 49.5 cm in length and weighing 2.2 kg.
Although favoring brackish waters, it is also found in fresh water and coastal areas from the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario system south to the Peedee River in South Carolina.
White perch is a popular game fish, and also fished commercially, for instance in Chesapeake Bay.
White perch is a colloquial name for the white crappie.