EP 117. Mike Winrow, Specimen Perch.

Recorded in 2013. Perch were once a prolific fish. Then in the 1960's, shallow ulcer disease all but wiped the species out in the UK. Now nearly 50 years on, from those few resistant survivors, the Perch is back. But in the process, the balance of power in terms of which fisheries have the ability to produce specimen sized Perch has changed radically. Here Mike Winrow explains.