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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WJET/WFXP/YourErie.com) — The population of ...

Reductions and outright halts in sea lamprey control efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic caused the predatory invaders to ...

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

The Great Lakes Fishery’s one of a kind pest control program is getting closer to ridding the lakes of its problem. Sea Lampreys are parasitic fish native to the Atlantic Ocean. They parasitize other ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...