white perch

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A small food fish (Morone americana) having silvery sides shading to gray or olive above, native to the Atlantic coast and freshwater streams of eastern North America and found throughout the Great Lakes.

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• noun small silvery food and game fish of eastern United States streams