Years ago I spent some time in Washington State...Asked all around where I could catch some perch...All the locals told me they don’t fish for perch...They are trash fish...
Found some perch, and ate ‘em...Good eats...
Well, they -are- trash fish. :-) I've grown up in WA... Why fish for perch when there's halibut, salmon and steelhead to be had? ;-)