Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sea perch \Sea" perch`\ (Zo["o]l.)
   (a) The European bass ({Roccus, or Labrax, lupus}); -- called
       also {sea dace}.
   (b) The cunner.
   (c) The sea bass.
   (d) The name is applied also to other species of fishes.