Greg McClinchey, GLFC Director of Policy & Legislative Affairs, says the sea lamprey control program is “back up to strength ...

In a study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Kandace Griffin, a fisheries and wildlife doctoral student, and ...

We are upholding our promise to our creator and our first foods,” Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation ...

The Great Lakes where sea lamprey control efforts were most cut during COVID-19 had the biggest surge of the invasive species, a study found.

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 fish are expected to decline.

Lamprey are an ancient family of fish, between 350 and 400 million years old, that also historically served as an important food source for Columbia Basin tribal communities.

Lamprey survived 450 million years pretty much unchanged. Problems started for the foundational Columbia River Basin fish with the arrival of Euro-American settlers in the Pacific Northwest.

In fact, lamprey returns to the Yakima sub-basin grew fivefold from the 2000s to the 2010s, according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

JAHN: Next, on Oregon Field Guide: The journey of lamprey up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers is more than just a wildlife story. MAN: It's the oldest living fish, and eel is what tribes call it.

The Lamprey Health Care Mobile Health Unit is stationed every Friday from 9 a.m. to noon at 53 Lincoln St. in Exeter outside the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry and Cleo Castonguay Community ...

The Oregon Zoo has welcomed a new group of Pacific lamprey in an effort to restore the population of one of the Pacific Northwest’s oldest species. Although the zoo has had lamprey before, they said ...