A new study shows that after sea lamprey control efforts were stopped or scaled back during the COVID-19 pandemic, the invasive species surged on the Great Lakes. Sea lampreys are a parasite ...

Sometimes called the "vampires of the Great Lakes," the sea lamprey is a parasitic fish that ranks among the most destructive aquatic invasive species to enter the waters of the Upper Midwest.

photo provided by Darby Communications THE FISH THIEF recounts how the Great Lakes were brought to their knees by the sea lamprey, a parasitic invader that decimated the lake trout population.

revealed that populations of parasitic sea lampreys in Lake Superior have surged over the past four years. This spike follows a reduction in sea lamprey control efforts during 2020 and 2021 due to ...

Work to control the population of sea lamprey – flesh-eating parasitic marine creatures that have invaded Lake Erie – was temporarily thrown off kilter as part of the Trump administration’s ...

But she and others point to efforts to control invasive sea lamprey, the parasitic fish that prey on lake trout. In 1990, agencies in Vermont, New York and at the federal level launched the sea ...

Lamprey larvae live in some tributaries where they transform to parasitic juveniles that migrate into the Great Lakes and kill a variety of fish. Infested tributaries are treated with lampricides ...

A brown trout caught on Lake Ontario in May 2022 has a number of parasitic, invasive sea lamprey attached to its body, feeding off it. The results jumped out of the data. In Lake Ontario — the ...

Sometimes called the "vampires of the Great Lakes," the sea lamprey is a parasitic fish that ranks among the most destructive aquatic invasive species to enter waters of the Upper Midwest.