U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel are returning to Door County in early May to apply chemicals to a creek in the Town of Clay Banks and hopefully save thousands of pounds of fish in Lake ...

First the bad news: sea lampreys exceeded abundance targets in 2024 in all five Great Lakes. Now the silver linings: the findings weren't a surprise, the reason is well understood and the coming years ...

One of the most significant invasive species threats to Great Lakes sportfish, sea lamprey, is on the decline after experiencing a surge during the COVID-19 pandemic, when efforts to control the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. and Canada collectively spend tens of millions of dollars per year to fight invasive, sport fish-attacking sea lamprey in ...

In its native Atlantic Ocean, sea lampreys are little more than an annoyance, parasites that latch on to large fish and whales but don’t kill them. In the Great Lakes, where they are relatively larger ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The highly successful Sea Lamprey Control program, charged with eradicating the invasive fish from around the Great Lakes, is in peril. At risk are $7 billion sport and commercial ...

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, feeding ...

First the bad news: sea lampreys exceeded abundance targets in 2024 in all five Great Lakes. Now the silver linings: the findings weren't a surprise, the reason is well understood and the coming years ...