During the COVID-19 pandemic, the amount of sea lamprey in the Great Lakes surged because treatments were limited.

First the bad news: sea lampreys exceeded abundance targets in 2024 in all five Great Lakes. Now the silver linings: the findings weren't a surprise, the reason is well understood and the coming years ...

President Trump has signed the Great Lakes Fishery Research Reauthorization Act into law, providing crucial funding to the G ...

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 ...

If Congress approves President Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Invasive sea lamprey treatment across the Great Lakes may fall victim this year to the Trump administration’s aggressive moves to slash the federal workforce. Cuts to probationary ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — An invasive species program vital to the Great Lakes will continue this year after the Trump administration — and a ruling from a federal judge — reversed its cuts to the US Fish ...

A new film explores the massive effort on the part of scientists, governments, and small businesses to save the Great Lakes from the invasive sea lamprey. “The Fish Thief” was released on Jan. 31. “It ...

Abundances of invasive sea lamprey in the Great Lakes remain above target levels following reduced control measures during the COVID pandemic, say fishery managers. According to the Great Lakes ...

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 ...

First the bad news: sea lampreys exceeded abundance targets in 2024 in all five Great Lakes. Now the silver linings: the findings weren't a surprise, the reason is well understood and the coming years ...