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He welcomed the timing of the settlement, which comes as many species of critical environmental and commercial importance to the region — such as rockfish, shad, herring and white perch — begin to spawn.

They walked up to the water, cast their lines in hopes of luring brim or white perch, then Henderson told Ellington he needed to tell him something important.

Pitcher’s Calvert County family were watermen, working off Broomes Island before daylight every day, making a living catching blues and sea trout, grouper and white perch.

Fishermen and women often catch lake trout, landlocked salmon, smallmouth bass and white perch during the spring season.

The populations of American shad and white perch are well over target; installation of a fish ladder in 2000 and other measures are paying off.