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 ...

LANSING – A recently discovered chemical compound that makes it difficult for invasive sea lamprey to find their breeding grounds may be a new tool for controlling a parasite that threatens Great ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Great Lakes fishery managers are moving a suite of new sea lamprey control tools into broader use after early tests sharply reduced reproduction of the invasive predator in several ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Lakes Fishery Commission has recorded a spike of sea lampreys related to travel restrictions that occurred during the ...

Federal and Canadian officials recently said they expect sea lamprey numbers in all the Great Lakes to exceed target numbers — sometimes by large amounts — in the coming years because of treatment ...

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 ...

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 ...

Traverse City area schools face off in Veterans Cup hockey game TRAVERSE CITY, Mich,. (WPBN/WGTU) - - Traverse City Central and the Bay Area Reps will compete in the 12th annual Veterans Cup Saturday, ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The effort to control what may very well be the least attractive aquatic invasive species has arrived here in northern Michigan. The Sea Lamprey Control ...

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 ...

Adult lamprey develop ring-shaped mouths, which they use to suck the blood from native fish. The number of invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes has gone down after regular control and treatment ...