Matthew J. Piette, P.E.

I grew up in Appleton, WI.  Every Friday my parents would go to the same restaurant for take-out fish fries.  It was originally owned by the Blier family, the parents of football legend and Steeler great, Rocky Blier, and later became TrimB’s, owned by the Trimbergers.

Their specialty was a lake perch with French fries, cole slaw, and rye bread.  The perch was lightly breaded and excellent.

My father believed that Appleton had the best of everything, anywhere, from medicine to schools to fish fries.  When I would come back to visit and we’d go out for fish, he’d always ask if we “could get fish like this in Milwaukee” and would laugh when I would assure him that we could not.

In the early 1990s, the lake perch population in Lame Michigan crashed fro reasons yet unknown and still has not recovered.  The lake perch served around here comes from Lake Erie or Lake Winnipeg and is expensive.

Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has an article about a new aquaculture business that has opened on Milwaukee’s near south side and is farming lake perch.  They are beginning to market it to local restaurants and plan to be up to 3,300 perch every two weeks in a couple of years.

Who knows; maybe some day we will be able to get fish like that in Milwaukee.

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