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Sauger spawn in spring in water 2 to 8 feet deep. The female lays 15,000 to 40,000 eggs for each pound of her body weight. Young sauger hatch after 2 to 4 weeks, depending on the water temperature.
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Sauger are the only other sport fish in this group, which includes darters. The sauger is a much smaller cousin of the walleye, although similar in appearance, and is found in large streams.
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The yellow perch is in the same family as the walleye and sauger, but in a different family from the white perch.
Englemann, C. 1938. Über die Großsauger Szetschwans, Sikongs, und Osttibets. Zeitschrift fur Saugetierekunde (Berlin) 13: 1-76.
Very similar to the walleye but slenderer and smaller is the Eastern sauger, or sand pike (S. canadense). The native American darters (2-3 in/5-8 cm), found E of the Rockies, are a subfamily containing many species, most of them brilliantly colored.
 See also: Walleye, Pike, Ibis, White Ibis, Miner
  
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