Cunner

The cunner, also known as the blue perch, bergall, chogset, choggie, conner or sea perch, is a species of wrasse native to the northwestern Atlantic, where it is found from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland to the Chesapeake Bay.

The cunner was once an important commercial fish but is now mostly treated as a nuisance, and anglers usually throw it back.

The cunner is a marine wrasse of the northwestern Atlantic, ranging from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland down to Chesapeake Bay. It stays inshore around seaweed beds, shipwrecks, and wharf pilings at depths of about 10 to 128 m, and shelters under rocks through winter.