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 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 ...

Waterways in Emmet and Charlevoix counties will undergo sea lamprey control measures in the next few weeks to help fight the destructive invasive species. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

The proposed barrier would be installed on the Sucker River in Alger County about 20 miles upstream from the river’s crossing ...

Mark Gaden of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and journalist Katie Thornton join Lake Effect's Joy Powers to discuss threats to a sea lamprey management program. For more than a century, an ...

MICHIGAN, (WPBN/WGTU) - - The Sea Lamprey Control season is supposed to start in April, but its fate remains uncertain after a dozen federal workers were fired last month. Now Congressman Jack Bergman ...

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WASHINGTON, DC — Invasive sea lamprey treatment across the Great Lakes may fall victim this year to the Trump administration’s aggressive moves to slash the federal workforce. Cuts to probationary ...

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 ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) plans to implement control measures to reduce the sea lamprey population in the Shiawassee River. USFWS says they 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 ...