The invasive sea lamprey brought Great Lakes fishing to its knees in the fifties and sixties, until local communities and ...

Sea lamprey numbers climbed in all Great Lakes in 2024 after treatment was limited during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A couple of assumptions are built into that optimistic forecast, including adequate staff and funding provided to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue its sea lamprey control work and ...

This spike follows a reduction in sea lamprey control efforts during 2020 and 2021 due to pandemic-related constraints. While recent control measures are showing promise, elevated numbers are ...

But from 2021 to 2023, the parasitic sea lamprey seemed to be everywhere. Sometimes he’d pull a salmon or trout from Lake Ontario only to find two or three of the bloodsuckers attached to its body.

An ancient predator, the sea lamprey, has resurfaced as a growing threat in the Great Lakes, sparking alarm among scientists and fishermen alike. This eel-like invader, unchanged for over ...

The Sea Lamprey This eel-like creature fastens itself to fish and sucks their blood. Within the past 25 years it has invaded Lake Huron and Lake Michigan and destroyed their teeming population of ...

A couple of assumptions are built into that optimistic forecast, including adequate staff and funding is provided to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to continue its sea lamprey control work and ...

Among the activities banned were most of the programs and activities in place to monitor and control sea lampreys in the ...