For God's sakes Zach! There really is only one perch when it comes to pond culture! It's the Yellow Perch (Perca flavescens). Where you southerners get calling members of the sunfish family "perch" I don't know! LOL

No insult intended -- just a little pet peeve I have.

Since Mooose is from Canada he can only be talking about Yellow Perch. Moose, I raise feed trained yellow perch in one of my ponds along with other species. They are quite hardy and grow well even if they go off the feed. However, unless you have lots of predators they tend to over reproduce and stunt. In may case I have purchased all females which precludes that. (The females grow fastest and get the largest anyway) I purchased close to 100 approximately 9 inch females from a grower in Ohio that raises them in an RAS in spring of 2002 (I have my own hauling tank),and they put on 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches by that fall. However, growth has slowed a little but they are still healthy plump fish.

Since they are a coolwater fish I doubt if they would do well too far south. But Canada is just right.

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.