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

WOODLAND — Biologist Dave’y Lumley paced the shallow water at the mouth of the Lewis River on an overcast morning late last month. With each step, she carefully scanned the water in front of her, ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the amount of sea lamprey in the Great Lakes surged because treatments were limited.

Courtney Flatt / Northwest News Network Fish counters have noted thousands of lamprey going past Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. Tribal biologists say these toothy, eel-like fish have a long way ...

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission said non-native predatory sea lamprey populations spiked due to reduced control during the COVID-19 pandemic. The commission said numbers rose when field crews were ...

If you're fishing for salmon or lake trout in Lake Champlain, you might end up with a fish you didn't bargain for. Sea lamprey are parasitic fish... Sep 19, 2012 — If you're fishing for salmon or lake ...

Ian McCluskey / OPB When Aaron Jackson was growing up in eastern Oregon, he’d never seen a lamprey in the Umatilla River. Tribal elders remembered harvesting the fish there for ceremonies. But by the ...

Pacific lamprey were once a major staple in Northwest tribes’ diets. The oils were a source of nutrition. Babies used lamprey tails as teething rings. Now, as numbers decline, lamprey only make it to ...

Researchers in the Great Lakes are trying to control an ancient fish with a new approach. Sea lamprey are notorious for latching onto other fish and literally sucking the life out of them. Researchers ...

The U.S. and Canada collectively spend tens of millions of dollars per year to fight invasive, sport fish-attacking sea lamprey in the Great Lakes, a control effort that's spanned generations. But ...

The sea lamprey, a 500-million-year-old animal with a sharp-toothed suction cup for a mouth, is the thing of nightmares. A new study from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research discovered that the ...