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 ...

The proposed barrier would be installed on the Sucker River in Alger County about 20 miles upstream from the river’s crossing ...

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 ...

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

Waterways in Emmet and Charlevoix counties will undergo sea lamprey control measures in the next few weeks to help fight the destructive invasive species. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will apply lampricides to two Lake Michigan tributaries in Grand Traverse County. The applications will take place ...

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 ...

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 ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) plans to implement control measures to reduce the sea lamprey population in the Shiawassee River. USFWS says they will apply ...

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 ...

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 ...