ANN ARBOR, MI — Great Lakes fishery managers are moving a suite of new sea lamprey control tools into broader use after early tests sharply reduced reproduction of the invasive predator in several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photograph of a sea lamprey shows the teeth and suction mouth it uses to parasitize fish. First the bad news: sea lampreys ...

LANSING – A recently discovered chemical compound that makes it difficult for invasive sea lamprey to find their breeding grounds may be a new tool for controlling a parasite that threatens Great ...

UPPER MICHIGAN. (WLUC) - Personnel with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Fisheries and Oceans Canada will be taking measures to reduce the sea lamprey population in the Great Lakes. The U.S.

How do you catch an invasive fish that's solitary and nocturnal? Researchers in the Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources are one step closer to figuring it out. These ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife plans lampricide treatment on the Pere Marquette River July 6-10 to control invasive sea lampreys.

SAGINAW COUNTY, MI -- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will treat the Shiawassee River with lampricides to kill invasive sea lamprey larvae between May 19 and May 28. The application will ...

More than 60 years after invasive sea lamprey began decimating Lake Superior lake trout, restoration efforts have successfully returned this native freshwater fish to the lake. Both a keystone species ...

If Congress approves President Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes ...

Invasive sea lampreys prey on most species of large Great Lakes fish such as lake trout, brown trout, lake sturgeon, lake whitefish, ciscoes, burbot, walleye and catfish. These species are crucial to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal and Canadian officials recently said they expect sea lamprey numbers in all the Great Lakes to exceed target numbers — ...

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 ...