White crappie (Pomoxis annularis) is a freshwater species recorded in the United States.
Scientific name: Pomoxis annularis · Water: Freshwater
Size: up to 53 cm
The white crappie is a centrarchid of sand-bottomed and mud-bottomed pools and backwaters of creeks and small to large rivers, and of lakes and ponds, often in turbid water. Adults feed on forage fishes such as shad, while younger fish take small invertebrates including microcrustaceans and small insects. Maximum length is about 53 cm total length, commonly about 25 cm, and it can live ten years. It is taken in subsistence fisheries and is a gamefish. Fishing vulnerability is low to moderate at 34 of 100 and resilience medium. IUCN lists it as least concern.
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