Walleye are prized throughout the northern United States as a premier food fish. Fingerlings can be trained to accept pelleted food, but the procedure requires special skills. A few growers are producing walleyes in ponds and cages. Most are marketed as advanced fingerlings. Growers in the northeastern United States could benefit from advances in walleye culture.
Yellow perch are extremely popular food fish in the northern United States.
They are hardy. At present. neither the technology nor the economics of their culture beyond fingerling stage have been adequately developed. They are typically marketed at 8-12 pounds as food. Other potential markets include roe as caviar and small fingerlings for the aquarium trade. They have been grown successfully in flow through, cage and net pen systems that use marine or fresh water.