RE: Are white perch worth eating?
We used to catch a bunch of them bass fishing up in Maine and keep about 15-20 a morning. Some of ours weren't so big... but when we made it back we'd fillet'em out (which on a small, alive white perch is a very very hard thing to do).
Then we'd bread'em in a bit of cornmeal and cracker crumbs and cook them in a hot skillet with bacon greese, just like bacon. If you weren't in the kitchen when they hit the papertowel covered plate.... you didn't get any. They were flat out delicious.