Learn more about control efforts for sea lampreys, crucial to lake trout recovery, which face setbacks as federal cuts threaten progress, despite GLFC’s announcement of lake trout’s full rebound.
As "The Fish Thief" details, the invasive creature sometimes referred to as a "vampire fish" once wreaked havoc on lake trout and other native species in Midwestern waters.
If we were to scale back by a third, that would leave 2.5 million lamprey” alive that would have otherwise been killed.
CLEVELAND, Ohio - The highly successful Sea Lamprey Control program, charged with eradicating the invasive fish from around ...
Lampreys can be managed, not eradicated. Much-maligned Fish and Wildlife bureaucrats monitor lamprey spawning grounds ...
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department will join partners from the Lake Champlain Fish and Wildlife Management Cooperative ...
Studies suggest that about half of the lamprey that approach the channel below the Bonneville Dam never go through a fish ...
Cuts to the federal workforce may threaten the health of the Great Lakes. What's happening? Twelve U.S. Fish and ...
Before the sea lamprey invasion, Canada and the United States harvested about 15 million pounds of lake trout in the upper Great Lakes each year. By the late 1940s, sea lamprey populations had ...
Even small disruptions to the treatment schedule can result in significant fish loss due to sea lamprey predation.
The Great Lakes sea lamprey control program faces mass layoffs, risking the health of the largest freshwater ecosystem.