{"id":13826,"date":"2017-04-12T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=13826"},"modified":"2017-04-18T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T14:38:40","slug":"state-record-white-perch-caught-in-baltimore-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/04\/12\/state-record-white-perch-caught-in-baltimore-county\/","title":{"rendered":"State Record White Perch Caught in Baltimore County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Catch Sets Mark in Nontidal Category<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2870\/33168244623_19968a53ce.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a>\u00a0confirmed a new white perch nontidal state fishing record was set April 7.<\/p>\n<p>George Venker of Baltimore caught a white perch weighing 1.9 pounds at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/fisheries\/Pages\/hotspots\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Loch Raven Reservoir<\/a>\u00a0in Baltimore County. The retired Bethlehem Steel worker said he fishes at the reservoir regularly and used a bottom rig and a nightcrawler to bring in his record catch, which measured 14.75 inches in length.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first I thought it was a catfish,\u201d Venker said. \u201cI\u2019m really proud. I\u2019m going back to see if I can an even bigger one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His historic catch broke the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2016\/08\/09\/two-white-perch-records-set-in-maryland\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous record<\/a> of 1.6 pounds held by James Stiars of Bel Air since August 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Venker\u2019s record perch was weighed on a certified scale\u00a0at seafood wholesaler Mr. Fish Inc. in Baltimore. Natural Resources biologist Erik Zlokovitz officially confirmed the species.<\/p>\n<p>The department maintains\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Fisheries\/Pages\/state-records.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">state records for sport fish<\/a>\u00a0in four divisions \u2013 Atlantic, Chesapeake, Nontidal and Invasive \u2013 and awards plaques to anglers who achieve record catches. Fish caught from privately-owned, fee-fishing waters are not eligible for record consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Anglers reporting a potential record catch should call 443-569-1381 or 410-260-8325. The fish\u00a0should be immersed in ice water to preserve its weight until it can be checked, confirmed and certified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catch Sets Mark in Nontidal Category The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0confirmed a new white perch nontidal state fishing record was set April 7. George Venker of Baltimore caught a white perch weighing 1.9 pounds at\u00a0Loch Raven Reservoir\u00a0in Baltimore County. The retired Bethlehem Steel worker said he fishes at the reservoir regularly and used a bottom<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/04\/12\/state-record-white-perch-caught-in-baltimore-county\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,11],"tags":[2969,2911,3070,3069,3068],"class_list":["post-13826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-fisheries","tag-baltimore-city","tag-baltimore-county","tag-erik-zlokovitz","tag-state-fishing-record","tag-white-perch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13826"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14718,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions\/14718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}