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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to the Lincoln River (Mason County) to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream bottom.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will begin applying lampricides to the Cass River in Tuscola and Saginaw counties to kill ...
With a mouth full of teeth and a hunger for blood, the lamprey is one of nature’s most disturbing invaders. In this video, we ...
As part of Rapid Growth’s Voices of Youth series, Flora Duckworth-Guerra created a two-part visual guide exploring six ...
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is reminding anglers and the public to avoid disturbing spawning sea lamprey that may currently be found in the Connecticut River and ...
Crews have finally started efforts to reduce the invasive sea lamprey population in the Great Lakes after COVID-19 disruptions threatened the $5.1-billion fishing industry.
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 ...
Experts note that one sea lamprey can kill up to 40 pounds of fish in its parasitic stage. At its most prolific nearly 75 years ago, almost 2.5 million sea lampreys killed 100 million pounds of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...