Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the most significant invasive species threats to Great Lakes sportfish, sea lamprey, is on the decline after experiencing a ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

More than 60 years after invasive sea lamprey began decimating Lake Superior lake trout, restoration efforts have successfully returned this native freshwater fish to the lake. Both a keystone species ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are seeking public feedback on a seasonal sea lamprey barrier in the Upper Peninsula. The first phase of the project, which ...

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 ...