The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a surge in sea lamprey populations, which have been damaging Great Lakes native species ...

When populations peaked at nearly 2.5 million in the mid-1900s, sea lampreys were killing a 100 million pounds of fish each ...

Lakes where sea lamprey control efforts were most cut back during the COVID-19 pandemic had the biggest surge of the invasive ...

Travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major pause in critical work to control destructive, invasive sea lampreys in the Great Lakes, resulting in two ...

Lamprey wounds on fish increased significantly in Lake Ontario — on chinook and coho ... year to keep populations of this harmful invasive species in check," he said. "If we take our foot ...