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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OCEANA COUNTY, MI - Next week, federal environmental regulators will be treating Stony Creek in Oceana County to kill invasive sea lamprey larvae. These treatments are meant to keep the invasive ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be applying lampricides to Porter Creek in Charlevoix County between July 7–11. The applications are intended to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream ...

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 ...

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are seeking public feedback on a seasonal sea lamprey barrier in the Upper Peninsula. The first phase of the project, which ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJET/WFXP/YourErie.com) — The population of ...

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 ...