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 ...

Reductions and outright halts in sea lamprey control efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic caused the predatory invaders to ...

MENOMINEE COUNTY, Mich. (WLUC) - The annual work to cull sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes will begin in the Upper Peninsula in just under two weeks. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

Feb. 15—With their eel-like bodies, vampire teeth and suction cup mouths, the main characters of a new documentary resemble something out of the "Dune" science fiction films. The sea lamprey nearly ...

CLAY BANKS - A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service project in Door County likely will save thousands of pounds of fish in Lake Michigan in the next couple of years. Fish & Wildlife personnel will apply ...

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 ...

Invasive sea lampreys still threaten the Great Lakes ecosystem and $5 billion fishing industry. Barriers and lampricides are effective lamprey controls, but new supplemental controls can help ...

A recent report by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) revealed that populations of parasitic sea lampreys in Lake Superior have surged over the past four years. This spike follows a reduction ...

For the sake of first-hand reporting, the Peabody-award-winning journalist Katie Thornton let a creature known as the vampire fish latch onto the palm of her hand. “The suction is so powerful — it’s ...

Federal and Canadian officials recently said they expect sea lamprey numbers in all the Great Lakes to exceed target numbers — sometimes by large amounts — in the coming years because of treatment ...