The pike perch fishery in the IJsselmeer is a mixed fishery. In addition to pike perch, perch, roach and bream are also caught.
The status of the pike-perch stock is over its optimum, the stock is overfished, although there is a positive trend in the spawning stock thanks to a good annual stock in 2017 when many pike-perch were born. In more recent years however, few new fry were born.
Few fish are discarded in this fishery because of the selective mesh size. However, the perch, roach and bream that are also landed in this fishery are not doing well. The pike-perch fishery makes the recovery of these fish species more difficult.