"The Great Lakes will never go back to what they were 200 years ago," he said. "After 60 or 70 years of trying to control sea lamprey, we control them every year, but we still haven't eradicated ...

The Great Lakes sea lamprey control program will proceed this year, though delayed, after U.S. President Donald Trump's administration was recently ordered to reinstate more than a dozen federal ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The highly successful Sea Lamprey Control program, charged with eradicating the invasive fish from around the Great Lakes, is in peril. At risk are $7 billion sport and ...

As sea lamprey Great Lakes populations peaked at about 2.5 million in the mid-1900s, they were killing 100 million pounds of Great Lakes fish per year. More in Science.

A new documentary released to streaming services on Jan. 31, 'THE FISH THIEF: A Great Lakes Mystery' tells the story of the sea lamprey's rise and fall on the lakes.

The invasive sea lamprey was chomping through the North American region’s native fish, until scientists made a fortuitous discovery. Sea lampreys, native to the Atlantic Ocean, began spreading ...

Sea lamprey abundance exceeded targets in 2024 in all Great Lakes due to treatment restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. However numbers of the parasitic, invasive fish are expected to meet ...

LAKE HURON—An ancient predator, the sea lamprey, has resurfaced as a growing threat in the Great Lakes, sparking alarm among scientists and fishermen alike. This eel-like invader, unchanged for over ...

Sea lampreys are an invasive, parasitic fish that entered the Great Lakes in the 1920s through shipping canals. Lampreys decimated fish populations before the U.S. and Canadian governments began ...