Walleye

Walleye (Stizostedion vitreum) has many alternative names that can lead to misidentification. Not to be confused with saltwater walleye of the Pacific coast, walleye, or walleyed pike, is a freshwater fish of the Great Lakes and central Canada. It is sometimes called green, blue, gray, or yellow pike. Other names include dory (from the French doré), jack salmon, jackfish, white eye, glass eye, and sauger, even though there is another fish properly called sauger. Walleye sometimes is called perch—pike perch, wall-eyed perch, yellow pike perch—and in fact it is the largest in the Percidae (perch) family. Michigan has had a thirty-five-year ban on commercial fishing for walleye in order to preserve the sport fishery. Canada permits commercial walleye catches.