One of the most significant invasive species threats to Great Lakes sportfish, sea lamprey, is on the decline after ...

Left untreated, the invasive sea lamprey is a complete menace. During COVID, Thornton revealed that one lake exploded with a ...

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 ...

For the sake of first-hand reporting, the Peabody-award-winning journalist Katie Thornton let a creature known as the vampire ...

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 ...

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. Fish and Wildlife Service will be applying lampricides to Porter Creek in Charlevoix County between July 7–11. The applications are intended to kill sea lamprey larvae burrowed in the stream ...

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 ...

Chalk it up to another unfortunate side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blood-sucking lampreys are back. Sea lampreys are parasitic fish from the northern Atlantic and Baltic, western Mediterranean ...

The contraptions stretching from behind navigational buoys in the St. Clair River are trap nets placed there to monitor sea lamprey populations. "They're fyke nets," said Kevin Tallon, an assessment ...

Lake County is blessed to be located near some wonderful waterways — Lake Erie and the Chagrin and Grand rivers, to name a few. These bodies of water are natural treasures that require care and ...

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - "Shark Week" is of no concern to Northeast Ohioans, but another fanged-predator can be found in the depths of Lake Erie. The sea lamprey is a parasitic fish that has made its ...